I received a mass e-mail from Al Gore this morning. He’s promoting his new book, The Assault on Reason. It looks interesting. I would read such a book, but I’m not going to rush out to buy it right now, only because I’ve got several books stacked up ahead of it, including Carter’s Our Endangered Values. But these lines from the e-mail struck me:

One pattern that has held true since 2001 is that this White House is less interested in openness and truth than any previous administration.

We are facing so many long-term challenges, from the climate crisis and the war in Iraq to health care and social welfare. To solve these problems and move forward we need to reverse the damage done to our democracy. We have little time to waste.

Gore and Carter are right, you know. The Bush years have been a watershed of narrow minded, fundamentalist thought, a modern day dark age. The cabal has fostered paranoia and attacked science. They’ve called The Almighty down on the side of war, torture, intrusion, and deceit. And don’t even get me started on what they’ve done to the enconomy and the environment. Maybe Bush can clear brush, but he can’t tend a garden.

Check out Al Gore’s Web site. I like the design. Cool.