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Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
12Oct2007 Filed under: Environment Author: MikeThat’s it. I’m done. Please, turn out the lights when your done.
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The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
-Carl Sandburg
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Daniel Messick
October 12th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Mike,
Here is how I feel about Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:
It’s as if I find myself in a Rod Serling written episode of the Twilight Zone.
I’m in an art museum, gazing upon a work of art, a painting of a pasteural Monet-like scene in the country, and other patrons around me “ooo and ahh..” over the painting making statements such as “What a lovely painting of a car,” “Look at the lovely shine on the fenders!” “The artist really brought out the chrome!” “The vehicle appears to be almost in motion…”
I stand stunned, perplexed, baffled. Do they not see that the painting is that of a pasteural country scene? That nowhere in the painting is there a car present? I scream at them “Are you people NUTS?! Can’t you see what I see?!”
And I see them laughing and chuckling and pointing in my direction, but no sound comes out of their mouths…apparently, it is I that is in the wrong. I am the one who does not see. I am the one who has apparently gone mad.
I have just taken a step into…the Twilight Zone.