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01 Sep 2010 19:25

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U.S.: Three fun facts about the Discovery Building gunman incident

  • one NBC News actually got on the phone WITH the gunman DURING the incident. They didn’t report it until after the incident was over.
  • two James J. Lee claimed that his turning point in focusing on the environment was watching Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
  • three During a 2008 Discovery Channel protest that he heavily promoted, he threw thousands of dollars onto city streets for some reason. source
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23 Jun 2010 22:30

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U.S.: Was Al Gore investigated for a sex crime within the last five years?

  • YES believe it or not; it was in Portland, Oregon source
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12 Jan 2010 11:48

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Offbeat: Al Gore, while not president, is powerful enough to get a font changed

  • Well, in the book there’re a lot of examples of scientific nomenclature and this particular numeral one is causing confusion when it’s combined with capitals.
  • mgmtdesign designer “Michael” • Speaking to Typotheque about Al Gore’s desire to get a font – Brioni, which he picked for his book “Our Choice,” by the way – changed slightly, because it looked like a little capital “i.” So, they changed the number one for Al Gore. Awesome. source
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11 Oct 2009 21:52

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Politics: Max Headroom: Al Gore stutters, Keith Olbermann doesn’t

  • Inconvenient for Al Phelim McAleer, co-director of “Not Evil Just Wrong,” a right-leaning film refuting Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” happened to be at Gore’s first Q&A in four years, Gore stumbled through McAleer’s question. Then McAleer’s mic was cut. Hm.

  • Fox & the GOP in bed?White House Communications Director Anita Dunn made a harsh-tongued accusation against Fox News this morning, calling them the “communications arm of the Republican Party” and saying Obama treats talking to them like a debate.

  • It’s about … deathLast week, Keith Olbermann devoted a show to the health care debate. He prefaced it by saying that the debate was “about … death.” And he goes on, and on, and on. And a lot of it is pretty good and substantial. (Watch the whole thing here.)

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15 Feb 2009 13:33

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Tech, World: And here’s a scary quote about global warming

  • We are basically looking now at a future climate that’s beyond anything we’ve considered seriously in climate model simulations.
  • Christopher Field • founding director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University, on the possibility that there might be some truth to this whole global warming thing • source
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