You had me at the whole global warming thing

I just read Al Gore’s book “The Assault on Reason” and it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.  The subject of the current Bush administration has troubled me for many years now, and this is not the first book I have read showing the ineptitude and often questionable intentions of our current Executive branch.  And this book is no slouch when it comes to giving factual, comparative reasoning why Bush and his fellow politicians have brought so many problems that we as a people need to straighten out.  However, the book lost me many times in its analytical reasoning thanks to my lack of sleep or the sometimes longwindedness of Gore’s arguments.  Don’t get me wrong, the former Vice President gives sound arguments backed up by historical as well as philosophical reference, I think he just gives too much for a layman to absorb without getting a headache or falling asleep.  It is a shame too, because so many of Gore’s arguments are ones that need to be refined so that everyday folk can better grasp the way that the Executive Branch has been manipulating the law in such a way as to cause an imbalance in the delicate system our ancestors fought so hard to attain.  In the end, it was a great book that may be studied academically one day, I just hope I don’t have to take the class.