Al Gore

Remember that line from An Inconvenient Truth, shortly after the ani­ma­tion of Lower Manhattan under­wa­ter, about how there are more things than just ter­ror­ism to be con­cerned about? Turns out that’s even more pre­scient (via) than he was likely aware at the time.

Body of Lies

The back­ground is this: Friday night on the way home, some dum­b­assed yup­pie on the bus was yak­ing loudly on thie phone about how he didn’t want to see it, because he didn’t need to see another movie about how bad America was. The yup­pie in ques­tion later went on to sug­gest An American Carol …