For most of the noughties, Will.I.am ripped the limbs off R&B-flecked pop and left her screaming in a basement.Whatever else Will.I.am did or didn't do, at least he didn't write that line.
But what iTunes actually means is that after eight years of the sodding thing, everyone's attention span is so completely fried by the amount of choice that it's hard enough to get through one song without SKIP SKIP SKIPPING, let alone a whole album.Damnit, you're supposed to listen to the album as a whole! Art rockers are very, very angry at you!
...Plus a lot of people that only the British care about. Oh, and Kanye West and Dan Brown, wow, that's bold.
Are you serious? Al Gore was, hands-down, one of the worst things about the past decade, and that article is dead-on for pointing it out. He's the absolute epitome of self-serving liberal politicians who spout any pontificatory blather they can get their hands on and encourage the "common folk" to take them so seriously they're seen as virtually beyond reproach.I honestly have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
The next time I hear somebody refer to "Al Gore's prophetic An Inconvenient Truth" I'm going to smack somebody - hell, I've even heard breathless upper-class democrats refer to him directly as a prophet! Honestly, people can spend all their time talking about how popularizing environmental concerns is important and An Inconvenient Truth opened lots of eyesYes, it was important. I don't know if you noticed but the entire tenor of the global warming debate changed after that movie came out, at least as far as I was aware of it.
and that's all well and good, but it doesn't change the fact that Al Gore is as much an execrable human being as any other politician of any stripe; he seized just on the right issue at the right moment to endear himself with a whole segment of people who are gullible enough to take him as seriously as he takes himself.Again. That's almost entirely meaningless. But the charge that he made himself popular, so what? He didn't run for office after the movie came out, even though a lot of people expected that he would win the democratic primary easily. It's not really all that clear why you think "making yourself popular" is some kind of moral failing.
His enduring popularity among liberals, combined with the (lack of any real) reaction in the US to the East Anglia climate-science email 'scandal,' has convinced me beyond any doubt of what I've suspected for a long time now: that people in this country are a lot more ready to trust a blathering politician than a scientist. And while I'm not one to advocate knee-jerk worship of scientists, I think the situation as it is is as close to backwards as we could come.This is just a weird statement. The "Climategate" scandal is huge on the right. It might as well be Watergate to them. It's being ignored on the left because it doesn't matter. What are we supposed to say about it? That scientists sometimes write mean things in email? That right-wingers take things out of context? None of those things are novel. The fact that we're not talking about is because we trust scientists. In fact we trust them so much that we're willing to overlook evidence that makes them look bad and continue to trust what they say.
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One thing we can blame Gore for, though, is inventing the downer-doc. An Inconvenient Truth melted a glacier of sobering, sanctimonious documentaries that were waiting to flood the cinemas and hector us on how doomed the Earth is because of global warming/human greed/not watching enough sobering, sanctimonious documentaries.
Oh FFS, this too stupid to read any further.
posted by DU at 10:40 AM on December 14, 2009 [37 favorites]