'Truth' wins. Again.

The pandering of the US media to 'mainstream American values' (e.g., creationism over evolution, the labeling of global warming as a left-wing hoax, "we gotta kill 'em over there before they kill us over here") is as blatant as the stench of Oxy-Contin sweat off Rush Limbaugh's greasy forehead.

So savor the serendipity of a story blaring 'An Inconvenient Verdict for Al Gore' getting published only hours before the former VP and all-around Renaissance Man was named co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness about the dangers of global warming (along with a UN panel that monitors climate change).

The 'inconvenient verdict' in question involved a case that originated with an English truck driver's outrage over the prospect of his two kids watching Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth in school. A British High Court judge ruled the film is "substantially founded upon scientific research and fact" but that nine -- nine -- errors were made in the "context of alarmism and exaggeration."

For those who haven't seen the film -- including the doomed children of that lorry-driving Pom -- let me paint you a picture: Imagine sitting beside a 50-pound bag of rice. Now imagine picking 9 kernels of rice out of the bag and placing them on the floor beside the bag. Now imagine ABC News doing a story on this scenario with a headline of 'Bag of Rice Emptied Onto Floor'. Would you call that headline 'alarmist' and an 'exaggeration'?

I sure would.

Online comment sections are my weakness, and this article elicited smug partisan attacks on a man committed to erring on the side of environmental caution, not for himself, but for the sake of FUTURE GENERATIONS OF HUMANS. So I chimed in:

Funny how the Internet (which Al Gore never claimed to invent, right-wing nitwits ... get over it, it's a fake story) allows those who've never spent a day in their lives researching a topic as critical as global warming denigrate those who have. Gore has been warning humankind about the dangers of their actions (and inactions) for 15 years. He's now won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Yet to read some of the comments on this forum, it's as if he's committed an act of treason. Have we reached a point in America where partisan screeds obliterate all forms of achievement? For the seriously deluded who think "big money" is the driving force behind global warming "hysteria" -- get off your Cheetos-filled arses and take a look at the BILLIONS made by petroleum companies. Yeah, all that big money behind solar and wind power is no doubt driving the debate. And dittoheads, keep turning on talk radio for your answers to life's most pressing questions ... America wouldn't want to lose its status as the world's laughingstock.