Now I'm pissed off
- 8 Sep 06, 05:04 PM
I wanted to write about the controversy I caused by asking a child if he was ¡°pissed off¡±. The problem is my editor got there first, which pissed me off. What made it even more irritating is that he¡¯d called me into his office the morning after my report and given me a mild dressing down. ¡°A word of wisdom,¡± he said, ¡°don¡¯t swear at children.¡±
Good advice, but in the meantime I need to blog about something else and this week I met (to steal his gag) the former future president of the United States.
There¡¯s no question Al Gore would have been the most important man I have ever met if those hanging chads hadn¡¯t done for his presidential hopes. But losing the presidential election seems to have been the making of the man.
If someone had asked you if you wanted to invest in a film of Al Gore giving a lecture on climate change you¡¯d have thought you were onto a sure-fire loser. A rival once said of Gore that he is so boring that when he has a fireside chat, the fire goes out. But Gore¡¯s film is unexpectedly compelling.
The new Al Gore is a man with a righteous fire in his soul, a man on a mission. He wants to warn the world of the perils of global warming and his film - based on the slide show he¡¯s been touring around America ever since the Supreme Court decided Bush was to get the White House ¨C is a rousing call to arms.
It is a surprisingly emotional film and Al Gore is a surprisingly interesting man and if that pisses you off don't hesitate to comment here.
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