From The CC Insider…

Former Vice President Al Gore will make his fourth appearance on The Daily Show next Wednesday to discuss his new book, Our Choice, which is something of a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. If I understand things correctly, the followup picks up where the first one left off, except now climate change is played by Jason Patric, and it takes place on a boat.

Here's Gore's last appearance on the show.

2007, Part 1

Part 2 and a bunch more here.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Here is an actual story from an actual news source about actual people doing actual things…

Once he roamed the streets, moving from shelter to shelter. Now, Oliver Gomes rubs shoulders with Washington's elite.

Squatting next to a white wall outside a Senate hearing room recently with a cell phone glued to his ear, Gomes is being paid to hold a place in line for a lobbyist at a hearing on the climate-change bill.

Oh, so, they're getting homeless people to fill in for lobbyists in Washington these days.

I've been wondering if maybe political satirists might be getting redundant these days. And I guess here's my answer.

I wonder if my bed is still waiting for me at home.

Update: I've decided to give politics one more chance to stopping doing my job for me.

Let's see what's happening in Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings today…

Sigh.

Hey, Arizona! Fantastic job electing Sylvia Allen to your state senate. This is a person who really knows how to use logic and understanding of facty things and a decent enough substitute for science to really make things happen.

Like, take for example, this except from a state senate session when she throws a logic grenade into the middle of an environmental debate and lets it explode kaplow all over everybody else's minds…

Exactly! I couldn't have put it in any more clearish terms myself. The Earth has been here for a whole 6,000 years and it hasn't been destroyed yet. So, what's all the concern now?

Come on now. Use your logic. 6,000 years is a loooooong time. It's 365,000 times longer than the entire time it took God to build the Earth out of magic powder and prayers. And, you've got to figure, in that time there's been countless attempts to destroy it by all the demons and dragons and orcs and chupacabras and drow elves and displacer beasts and that one evil sub-species of unicorns. And it's still here! So, the Earth is either pretty resilient, or it's under an incredibly powerful spell of protection from a witchdoctor.

Either way, it can withstand a few more years of pummeling by us. At least until Jesus flies his magic bus down from Heaven to pick up all the faithful before the Rapture.

And, after that, who cares?

As predicted, the House of Representatives recently passed legislation that would regulate greenhouse gas emissions and guarantee Americans a polar bear in every pot, so long as that pot is made from 75% post-consumer granola. Now the measure heads to the Senate, where at least one man has the carbon-based stones to ask: What, exactly, is the Environmental Protection Agency trying to hide?

A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming.

"[Report author Alan Carlin] came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla, a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying he's ordered an investigation. "We're going to expose it."

Yes! Transparency, that's what we need in these matters; just think how much time we've wasted on "evolution" because people keep planting those hoax fossils underground. Anyway, kudos to Jim Inhofe for standing up to the EPA on behalf of skilled scientist Alan Carlin…

An EPA official told FOXNews.com on Monday that Carlin, who is an economist — not a scientist — included "no original research" in his report. The official said that Carlin "has not been muzzled in the agency at all," but stressed that his report was entirely "unsolicited."

"It was something that he did on his own," the official said. "Though he was not qualified, his manager indulged him and allowed him on agency time to draft up … a set of comments."

Oh, what, now you have to be a "scientist" to write policy reports about science? Who gets to decide what makes a person a "scientist," anyway? That's right, other "scientists." See how this sham works?

And now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go draft up a report disproving calculus. I just have a hunch, is all, and I hated that crap in school.

I've been a big fan of the EPA for a long time. Not the Environmental Protection Agency, the other EPA, Elephant Punchers Anonymous. Believe me, those elephants had it coming. Total dicks.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

I have a new favorite website that I recently found. It's called Rapture Ready, and its mostly a message board designed as a place for Evangelical Christians to share stories about the growing evil presence they feel sweeping over the world and how excited they all are that Jesus will be carrying them all up to Heaven any day now.

I read it kind of anthropologically, to see what people who are absolutely nothing like me are thinking. I usually find it relatively harmless — if maybe somewhat sad — but I recently came upon this exciting message of anti-environmental hope — from someone called elpnvn — that really touched me. And so I felt the need to share…
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