Have You Seen My Dynamite Mr. Gore?
Alfred Nobel 1833-1896
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer and most importantly he was the inventor of DYNAMITE! Ironically, the Nobel Peace Prize is named for him. About a year before his death a French newspaper started to make Mr. Nobel feel a little guilty for creating such a loud toy. Because he wanted to be remembered for something other then the destruction of mankind, he left the bulk of his fortune to create the Nobel Prizes (6 in all).
It was announced today that one of my favorite people and the next President of the United States was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price; Mr. Al Gore!
Al Gore (Vietnam)
There are so many amazing things about Al Gore, here are just a few. He was instrumental in bringing the World Wide Web into every home in America (the information superhighway campaign), he chartered two jets days after Hurricane Katrina and evacuated 207 people, he has been very vocal about the mistakes and even laws that have been broken by Bush and his administration, he has written 2 books regarding the environment, he recently starred in the 3rd top grossing Documentary of all time, he roomed with Tommy Lee Jones at Harvard, He enlisted in Vietnam even though he opposed the war, he won the popular vote, he loves me, he said no to Iraq when every one else said yes (minus Barack and a few others), As a child he split time between working on his fathers tobacco farm in Tennessee and living in a hotel room in Washington DC, he was part of the funniest SNL skit of the last 15 years (not available online), he was part of the second funniest SNL skit in the last 15 years, he said NO to the war! The list goes on and on.
His 3rd book, The Assault on Reason, will be available in May. Man he comes up with great titles! If you haven't yet seen An Inconvenient Truth pick it up, all the proceeds for the movie and the book go to funding renewable energy. If you enjoyed the movie definitely get the book, it's amazing.
If you cannot tell, I am in love with this guy. Super serial guys, serial.
Update: Another good Al Gore-South Park clip!
UPDATE: Viacom has ordered YouTube to remove 100,000 clips of there programming. No more brilliant South-Park-making-fun-of-Al-Gore clips.
posted by Timothy Briner at
10:30 AM
6 Comments:
The man has a firm hand shake!
Al for prez 2008! oh...and one more awesome thing you forgot to mention about Al is that he's kind of hot!
Weird. Both of you, weird.
i see you love Al gore - what's the SNL skit he was in that is the 2nd best ever - the link sent me to Crooks & Liars.com - couldn't find an SNL skit there
did you know that the actor Tom Sizemore has a show on tv that's about all his run-in's with the law, his court dates and drug relapses? He actually hosts it himself too - looking like something that cat dragged in.
Try it now D.
Unfortunately, Al Gore isn't entirely free from the taint of corruption... He's in somebody else's pocket just like every other politician.
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