AUSTIN, Tx. -- Al Gore is here. "There used to be a remedy for hangovers called hair of the dog that bit you," he says. "Oh we have a fossil fuel crisis? Let's [drill] for more." Mixed feelings: I am very very pro-Gore but also pro-hair of the dog.

It's always bittersweet seeing Gore. We could have had a true futurist as president. He ties the climate crisis to national security and demands an end an end to Hydrocarbon Man. "Am I the only who finds it odd that our country is so often fooled into picking a remedy [consonant with what] led to the problem anyway?" Drilling our way out of the climate crisis "makes as much sense as responding to an attack from Afghanistan by invading another country."

Al Gore, President Ex Officio of Blue America, wants you to go to this website.

(*OutKast said it on Letterman in October 2000 while playing "B.O.B.," so I say it counts as a lyric for a headline)

Update: Al Gore gives a qualified defense of meat-eating. In Texas! If he wanted to pander he would have eaten a brisket breakfast taco on stage. Running through my head is my anthem as a 17-year-old vegan: You cannot deny/ that/ meat is still murder/ dairy still rape/ and I'm/ still as stupid as anyone/ but I know my mistakes...

Also -- and here I'm out of my lane -- "Mountaintop mining is an atrocity. It is an outrage."