Wholesome 8===D

In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

I recommend paying attention.

• http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/243

An Inconvenient Truth (ait_blog) online at dailymotion.com (another YouTube copy-cat site).

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxcgw_aitlow

Share The Truth is a website matching people who want to see An Inconvenient Truth with some very generous donors who will pay for them to go see it -- one of them just bought me $17.50 worth of tickets!

It also has a blog that I just syndicated.

sharethetruth

Somewhat suprisingly there's a group of Christians doing the same thing: The Inconvenient Christians. If they had a blog, I would syndicate it too, but I don't think they do.


BTW - The ljpodcast is still down. I will get it up tonight if I don't get free movie tickets.

Probably my third biggest regret in life (I'm not meticlous about ranking them, but third is a good estimate) is getting involved in the Nader/LaDuke 2000 campaign. I was painfully reminded of this again today while watching an "Unseen Al Gore Campaign Video" from 2000 (watch it: Part 1, Part 2), and was even more painfully reminded of if when I watched former National Economic Adviser to President Clinton, Gene Speriling, giving a lecture at the Googleplex on his book The Pro-Growth Progressive.

I've said it before, but I can't emphasize the point enough, if I live to be 100 I'll probably never see another American president better than Bill Clinton... Though, I'd imagine Hillary would come close. I'm also very impressed with Joe Biden, who has actually announced he'll run... which, you know, is an important step towards becoming president.

... When you hit your knees tonight, ask God to love him too.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1511003

This is how I feel about voting for Nader in 2000