The Church of the Poison Mind...

Is now holding services.



Yes, dear readers... an adherent of the Church of Global Warming has now seen it fit to deify its leader:

The Last Temptation of Al Gore

By ERIC POOLEY

Let's say you were dreaming up the perfect stealth candidate for 2008, a Democrat who could step into the presidential race when the party confronts its inevitable doubts about the front-runners. You would want a candidate with the grassroots appeal of Barack Obama—someone with a message that transcends politics, someone who spoke out loud and clear and early against the war in Iraq. But you would also want a candidate with the operational toughness of Hillary Clinton—someone with experience and credibility on the world stage.

In other words, you would want someone like Al Gore—the improbably charismatic (compared to what?--ed.), Academy Award–winning, Nobel Prize–nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command. There's only one problem. The former Vice President just doesn't seem interested. He says he has "fallen out of love with politics," which is shorthand for both his general disgust with the process and the pain he still feels over the hard blow of the 2000 election, when he became only the fourth man in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose a presidential election. In the face of wrenching disappointment, he showed enormous discipline—waking up every day knowing he came so close, believing the Supreme Court was dead wrong to shut down the Florida recount but never talking about it publicly because he didn't want Americans to lose faith in their system. That changes a man forever.

...Oh... if only... (orgasmic shudders)....

Yes, the global warming messiah--the prophet, Al Gore.

Probably not an accident, that Mr. Pooley chose to play on a title of a movie depicting Christ when he chose to write about his personal savior.

Yes, Al Gore...the one that would lead civilization down the primrose path away from the evils of capitalism to a land flowing--flowing I tell you!!--not with milk and honey, but with fruits and nuts.

Yes, the man who would lead all to the socialist utopian's utopia... one that would once again bring balance to the planet, and place power in the hands of those who know better.

Ahh... if only...