Wandering in the wood, Alice heard sawing and walked that way, hopeful of getting directions. Halfway up an oak, a hedgehog in a frock coat and silk hat was sawing off the limb it sat on.
"I say," she cried, "you ought to stop that!" The hedgehog looked at her but kept sawing.
"Why should I?" it snapped.
"You'll fall!"
"Why should I fall?" the hedgehog shouted, turning pink. "Explain!"
"When the limb you're sawing falls, you'll fall too," Alice replied, with, she thought, admirable conciseness.
"That's not an explanation," the hedgehog shouted, still sawing. "It's just proximate cause. You'll have to give ultimate cause!"
"I shall never get home for tea," Alice sighed.
That's author
David Rains Wallace channeling Lewis Carroll. I imagine that, after his day on the Hill yesterday (low-lighted by Senator Inhofe's
shameless performance, in which the Republican from Oklahoma himself turned a little pink), Al Gore must feel a bit like Alice.
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I think we know what the Red Queen would say!
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." ??
Or do you mean: Off with their heads!
I suspect the latter.
that would be Al, who owns an energy guzzling home and whose family has benefited from a zinc mine and big oil company - why is he always given a pass? Because he cares? (though his personal actions show otherwise).. the general public sees this hypocrisy amd that is why the enivronmental movement, though gaining support, is slow to be embraced en masse by Americans in general (SUVS, bad energy habits...)
So you think that if Gore lived in a teepee and walked barefoot he'd have more influence? People would give up their SUVs ?
No, if Al Gore lived in a normal house instead of a mansion and actually practiced what he preached it might be a good start... but people like you will continue to give him a pass because you put politics ahead of our earth...he is in such a great position to LEAD BY EXAMPLE but he's not doing it.
Greenfool, that you? Always harping on the same thing... C'mon, man, give it a rest. I mean, we get it. You don't like Al Gore. In your book, he's a rank hypocrite. Okay, so now what? Where does that leave you?
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