My Man-Crush Done Good

October 12, 2007

Filed in: The Way We Live Now

Call me an out-of-touch, over-the-hill, bleeding-heart, tree-hugging liberal, but I love me some Al Gore and always have, even way back before his VP gig. He’s like Clinton without the handsiness. Actually, he’s what a lot of us thought Clinton was.

I know he’s a little bit of a sanctimonious scold with the global warming thing, but you know, we need a little scolding. And he’s even kind of earned the sanctimony. So good work Nobel Prize committee. (I know, you were all waiting for my stamp of approval, right? Here it is.) Also very much love the implication that world peace and environmental awareness are linked.

Related: I feel a little bad saying this out loud, but am I the only one who finds Doris Lessing one of the most turgid writers on the planet? Am I a bad person for not getting so much as a single page of The Golden Notebook? I guess the feminist in me is happy, but yeesh. Tough read.

I do love what she allegedly said upon learning of her Nobel: “Oh, Christ. I couldn’t care less.”