Al Gore needs some perspective

Or so it seems, via Fark:

"I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously," Gore said, having never heard of the Great Depression, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War or the World Wars.

Also, Jim Geraghty has some commentary about other parts of Gore's big goofy environmental speech yesterday. This part is good:

Today's Washington Post notes, "As people filed out of the hall, three black cars waited for Gore and his entourage. A young woman walked up to the first one, a Lincoln Town Car, and stuck a handwritten note on the windshield: 'I wish I were a Prius.'"

A 2008 Lincoln Town Car gets 15 miles per gallon in the city, 22 on the highway.