re: #53 BigPapa

This sounds like an elaboration on the Al Gore Criticism: Al Gore has defeated the cause to fight AGW because of the way he’s promoted the cause to fight AGW.

Except he’s not an intellectual.

No, but he promotes himself as an expert, and he certainly talks down—while making a boatload of money in the process. And I don’t think he has defeated the cause. He just hasn’t helped his own cause at times.

My view—Don’t give me a fish. Don’t tell me how to fish. Show me how to fish, and I can take it from there and be grateful instead of resentful.