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Al Gore must be laughing at the latest attempt by John Kerry to reinvent himself -- or rather to assume another false identity that he believes will make him pleasing to the public. Just got this postcard, sent to me as an occasional attendee at the "City Arts and Lectures" series in San Francisco. For Kerry, the "war hero" thing didn't work. The "anti-war activist" thing didn't work. So let's gear up that tin ear for the public pulse and try again. Now Kerry (and his wife) are "The New Pioneers of the Environmental Frontier" -- having a "conversation" about "This Moment on Earth." How unoriginal can you get? Gore already owns this political "position" -- he even wrote a book about it -- Earth in the Balance -- and long before the current global warming craze. The best Kerry can do is steal for the name of his "conversation" the title of another book, Gregg Easterbrook's 1995 A Moment on the Earth, which, ironically, argued that the environmental movement ought to declare victory and back off a bit (but that was before the movement reinvigorated itself with the global warming scare).

Can this guy ever do anything original? Anything right? Anything principled? Anything that isn't stupidly embarrassing in its sad quest for public acceptance?

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