So, picked up Al Gore’s new book The Assault on Reason from Amazon, and it’s quite good. I’m only a couple chapters in, and it’s sort of strange – it talks about the media, how television changes our perception of the news, drifts off a bit into neuroscience (which I think is where a lot of people will go “zzzzzz…”), and back to the media.

So far, it’s *excellent*, but it’s also sort of tragic. Reading this book makes me wonder what it would be like to have a President that’s this articulate, passionate, and intelligent. Bush would never write a book like this – he simply couldn’t. He uttterly, totally lacks the mental faculty to *create* something interesting, and it boggles my mind *every god damned day* that this fucking moron’s the “leader of the ‘free’ world.” It makes me want to vomit just thinking about it, and thinking about what could have been.