Is it getting warm in here?

Global warming reminds me a bit of a Jewish joke. The one where the wife says to the husband "Close the window, it's cold outside." And the husband says, "So, if I close the window, it will be warm outside?"

Obviously, global warming is a global predicament, perhaps the culmination of Mankind's expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Yes? We have given in to all kinds of evil and temptation--the temptations of cheap fuel and excess, which have lead, perhaps, to a potential post-diluvian disaster.

All that being said, I happy to think Al Gore is a menschalok. Oscar. Nobel Prize. But Americans do not like intelligent leaders. After all, we twice rejected (handily) perhaps the smartest and most able man ever to run for president, Adlai E. Stevenson and, for whatever reason, Mr. Gore didn't make it. Since Abraham, mankind has looked for antipodes--that is good and its absolute opposite, evil.

When I was a boy it was the Nazis. Then the Soviets. Now Islam.

This is easier, more understandable for the electorate to understand. Ban gumball machines because terrorists can put poison in them. Fight the GLOBAL war on terror.

There is a global war we should be fighting. The one Al Gore reminded the earth of.