Year: 2007

So now that Al Gore can add “Nobel Prize” winner to his resume, is he going to reconsider a run at the White House?

I’m still convinced that Hillary is unelectable, but I don’t think the slate that the GOP is offering is anything special. Al Gore, on the other hand, already won the popular vote once, and that was when he was doing everything wrong. Nothing teaches the way experience does. I have to think that the older, wiser Gore could take the White House in a walk. The only question is whether it’s a walk he wants to take. Because he’d be taking a hëll of a chance: Right now he’s a respected elder statesman with major cred toward getting the job done in terms of reversing global warming. If he runs and loses, then it’s not only a step back personally, but it’s a step back for the interests of the world environmental situation because he’ll be just another failed presidential candidate.

Personally I hope he goes for it, but then again, that’s easy for me to say.

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Just out of the sake of my own curiosity, I’d be interested to know who your top two favorite X-Factor characters are? I’m saying “two” going on the assumption that if I said “Who’s your favorite” most people would say Madrox.

So who’re your top two?

Feel free to pass this query to other boards. I’d like to know peoples’ opinions.

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Because I knew that if they backed into the title through the poor play of another team, the fate that befell the Phillies would have befallen the Mets. “Prolonging the agony” was the phrase I used several weeks ago. In my opinion, no team should be in post season play because they owe a debt of gratitude to another team, which is what would have happened to the Mets if they’d backed into the NL East courtesy of the Phillies dropping games they should have won.

And while Phillies fans around the internet snarked the Mets for their impressive meltdown, no one seemed to be too concerned for the fact that the Phillies had no business going to the post season because their presence there was due to the Mets pìššìņg away a 7 game lead. The Phillies wound up doing exactly what I *didn’t* want the Mets to do. They didn’t win the division title; the Mets lost the division title, and that’s a very different thing.

Now Phillies fans may have felt some degree of entitlement as the Phillies played monumentally adequate ball in the home stretch…as opposed to the Mets who played monumentally inadequate ball. Without that combination of events, the Phillies finish second. But the Mets gave them the division lead in a box that was gift-wrapped by the bullpen that would come into inflammatory situations and pour on gasoline, and finished with a nice bow on top by an offense that just couldn’t get enough of stranding runners in scoring position. All that was proven during the final weeks was that there was no lead the Mets couldn’t blow, be it a five run lead or a seven game lead.

How does that entitle Phillies fans to strut? Beats me.

Anyway, the fate that I foresaw happening to the Mets for not truly earning their post season berth was shifted over to the Phillies for not truly earning theirs. I hope the Phils fans enjoyed their whole three extra games of losing baseball. Better you than us.

Wait’ll next year.

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He surprises you.

Vetoing a program designed to use a tax on cigarettes to provide health care for poor children? With reasoning that prioritizes the needs of huge health care companies over helping sick children?

Does he remotely think that ANYONE is going to be fooled into thinking that his motivations come from anything other than protecting big business interests over the interests of the most helpless sections of the population?

Yes…it’s a new low. And if Congress can’t override this veto, they’re fricking useless.

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…and they will…I’m thinking “The Lost Season” for the title.

Or maybe just “Choke.”

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