| |
Blog of Adam Daifallah -- author, journalist, law student. Lover of politics, writing, golf, curling, fitness, fashion, bacon and maple products -- not necessarily (but probably) in that order. Partisan of the Anglosphere. Contact me via email at adam@daifallah.com. This summer I am joined by Keir Wilmut and Omar Soliman.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Al Gore, doing his part to save the environment
The latest edition of the New Yorker contains a particularly interesting (although overly charitable, and very long) profile of former Vice President Al Gore by the magazine's editor, David Remnick. The piece is brilliantly written and worth your while.
But this little snippet caught my eye, in a section describing the Gore's new home in Nashville:
When the architect was designing the rear addition to the house, Gore asked him to curve the walls inward in two places in order to save several trees. “The trees weren’t anything special, nothing rare or anything,” he said. “I just couldn’t bear to bring ’em down.” In the back yard, around the patio and the extra-long pool, where Al and Tipper do laps, Gore also installed an anti-bug system that sprays a fine mist of ground chrysanthemums from various discreet sources: a tree trunk, a patio wall. “The mosquitoes just hate it,” he said. Other features of the house are less environmentally correct. A 2004 black Cadillac, which Gore drives, was parked in the driveway. A ’65 Mustang—a Valentine’s Day gift from Al to Tipper—was parked in the garage.
Nice to see Doomsday Al, who once prophesized the end of the world would come in what, 2010?, driving a gas-guzzling Cadillac (!!!!!!!). I suppose Gore thinks that ideas like keeping to one car per household and driving puny hybrids should apply to everyone but himself.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 1:42 AM
|
