I have a student this semester, Diane, who is a flight attendant. Every weekend, she’s off to some cool European city with her husband, a pilot. Up until now, she’s been bringing me little gifts of beer from each trip. She drops 60 cents in Germany, and then that week I get to taste a new variety of ale or lager. Very, very cool!
This weekend, it was off to Rome, and she brought me back a piece of paper. This piece of paper had something written on it, though, something she thought I would appreciate because of my environmental concerns:
Pretty cool, eh? Despite his being a politician, I have a lot of respect for Gore for bringing the issue of climate change into the national consciousness. Unfortunately, because he’s a Democrat and a climate activist, the Republican response has been anti-Gore, and thus anti-climate science and anti-climate action. Hopefully Gore’s consciousness-raising outweighs the politicization of the issue he has wrought by advocating on its behalf.
Either way, the autograph is a great gift. Thanks, Diane!
(Did I mention she brought me a bottle of beer, too?)
This is really cool. The best gift I ever got was a pen. And Gore has gotten a pretty bad rap because he is a politcian but that is also why so many people have listened to him. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. And I agree he has done a terrific job of just making people more aware about the environmental issues out there.
Pretty freakin’ cool, man!
Excellent! That’s one to put on the wall.