On this last day of August, it’s reassuring to be
confronted with a few unchangeable truths of life. In a world filled to the
brim with doubts and shifting narratives, it is quite comforting to be reminded
that some things actually never change.
1. The
SEC remains dominant.
2. Al
Gore remains a bloviating idiot.
In the four marque match ups between SEC teams and
top out of conference opponents, the conference once again proved its medal,
Alabama beating West Virginia by 10, Georgia annihilating Clemson by 24, Ole
Miss whipping Boise State by 22, and LSU spotting Wisconsin a 24-7 lead before
storming back in the second half to win by 4. Just like death and taxes…
On the seventh anniversary of his Nobel Peace
Prize(?) acceptance speech in which he famously declared, “The North Polar ice
cap is falling off a cliff.” The former Vice-President, doing his best imitation
of a scientist continued, “It could be completely gone in summer in as
little as seven ears…seven years from now.” For those of you doing the math at
home, that would be the summer of 2014. Fortunately for the planet, Al was
spectacularly wrong. Satellite photographs just released by the University of
Illinois’ Cryosphere project, show that the North Polar ice cap sits at a
whopping 5.2 million square kilometers, its largest mass since 2006 and an
increase of 43%, or an area the size of the state of Alaska, in just the last
two years. An actual scientist, Judith Curry from the Georgia Institute of
Technology deadpanned, “It would appear that the Arctic sea ice death spiral
seems to have been reversed.”
I’m not expecting any comment coming from the 10,000
square foot, 9 million dollar, Gore family compound. I’m sure that Al is flying
somewhere in his private Gulfstream to make a $250,000 speech decrying the
defilement of the planet by other people’s 10,000 square foot homes and private
Gulfstreams. The only thing that has consistently been greened by Al Gore over
the past ten years is his bank account. But God bless him, now that he is
safely removed from the levers of power, he has finally discovered the wonders of
capitalism.
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