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The Nation's Pulse
Matrimonial Gore
Breaking up isn’t hard to do for the Woodstock Generation.
Apparently a lot of Americans were surprised (“saddened,” “depressed” — New Republic) by news that Al and Tipper Gore were, after 40 years of marriage, parting company. Everywhere neurotic married couples asked: “If the Gores can’t make it, who can?”
Well, how about the Clintons? Even the Eliot Spitzers were still together, last time we checked. Many political marriages have weathered far worse. Think about the odd White House dynamic of FDR, his mistress Lucy Mercer, his wife Eleanor and her wife Lorena Hickok. Go back far enough and you find some perfectly awful political marriages that endured, but none worse than the Lincolns’. Mary Todd once spat in the face of the secretary of state. (Are you taking notes, Michelle?) After one of Mrs. Lincoln’s hissy fits, the long-suffering Abe shrugged it off, saying, “It does her lots of good and it doesn’t hurt me a bit.”
In my grandparents’ day marriage meant something. Divorce was the sole prerogative of Hollywood starlets and communists. Common folk were obliged to pledge their troth, for better or worse, till death do we part, and like it.
If things got really bad, the wife was expected to discretely poison her husband and then quietly shut herself up in her big Victorian house for the rest of her life. The townsfolk would tactfully turn a blank eye, figuring he doubtless deserved it, and for the next few months husbands could be expected to mind their Ps and Qs.
Actually, the Gore’s separation should have been expected. Al and Tipper were always in the high-risk divorce category. They were rich celebrities. They were self-absorbed Baby Boomers. And, like all do-gooders, Al spent most of his time away from home trying to save the world, while his marriage died from neglect.
If nothing else, the Gores have focused our attention on late-in-life divorce. This is another loony social construct only the Boomers could have come up with. Every other generation figured, “Hell, we’ve made it this far, might as well stick it out a few more years.” Not the Boomers.
LATER GENERATIONS had reversed the trend. They’d witnessed first-hand the disasters that moral relativism, casual sex and no-fault divorce have wreaked on society. Divorce rates have been falling for years. Though not if the Boomers can help it. “In a sense, getting divorced is the iconic baby boomer act,” Gil Troy, an expert on political marriages, told the New York Times. What else would you expect from a generation that turned Maslow’s hierarchy of needs on its head, thus beginning and ending with self-actualization?
Even the Gores’ email announcement of their separation was boring, meaningless and phony, much like the Gores themselves, calling it a “mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration.”
This attitude of Me Generation egotism and goofy pop psychology was perfectly captured in an interview with Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage: A History. She told NPR that the Gores’ divorce shouldn’t be viewed as a failure, but as a “success” and a “celebration of life.” I wonder what Dr. Coontz thinks of the recession. “A celebration of government intervention!” The oil leak? “A celebration of blowout prevention technology!”
This Sixties’ silliness was echoed by Michelle Cottle in the New Republic. “For them, there is still a whole lot of ‘everything’ to come.” And by everything you mean enlarged prostates, erectile dysfunction and incontinence? Coontz notes that we no longer need our spouses to take care of us in old age. We have our children. They’re not busy. And, thanks to the taxpayers, we have our social security, to say nothing of government programs for housing, meals, transportation, health care, prescription drug costs, legal services, utility bills. We can sponge off them for a while. At least till the retired outnumber working Americans. Then we’ll just let in some more Mexicans.
Hang on, the Boomers cry, we’re not through wrecking American culture yet!
But they are getting old, whether they accept it or not. They won’t be around forever. In a few years we can pack them and their Carole King records off to the nursing home and forget about them.
To paraphrase old Abe: “It’ll do them lots of good and it won’t hurt us a bit.”
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Kitty| 6.18.10 @ 6:34AM
The Clintons? Puh-leeeze, that isn't a marriage; it's a merger to maintain their 'political viability within the system.'
Hank| 6.18.10 @ 10:13AM
Firmer Flesh
I expect Al will soon be looking for firmer flesh.
No lumps, no bumps, no bags, no sags. Firmer flesh is what we older men want to caress.
Hank| 6.18.10 @ 10:16AM
Crass to admit this, but it's true for all of us aging used-to-be hunks. All of us are yearning for firmer flesh! (How I love its silkiness)
Kitty| 6.18.10 @ 11:34AM
I'll bet Tipper is looking for some firmer flesh, too.
Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 12:12PM
OK Kitty and Hank, you two need to go off and have some private emails. Phone sex is so outre, now email sex is the cat's meow. Have fun you two, keep it steamy, but remember, practice safe sex always!!
David T.| 6.18.10 @ 1:06PM
Kitty--Your comeback is the best thing I've read on this whole post today.
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 3:49PM
Kitty, HANK ,,is one of the small people
"EMPHASIS SMALL" referenced by the equally socio-economic insensitive BP SWEDE
Johnny C.| 6.18.10 @ 1:52PM
Ditto, Hank,
When a woman gets that sagging, matronly look, I ditch her. Can't stand sagging on a woman. Sorry.
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 3:46PM
Weren't you one of the PUSSSS-AYEEES whinning about crude & crass post yes-ter-day BUBBA?
Alan Brooks| 6.19.10 @ 8:32AM
The great irony (for you people) is if Gore had been elected POTUS in 2000, it would be highly likely a Republican would be president today.
ds80| 6.19.10 @ 2:59PM
Your comment is what we call "rank speculation".
Ergo... who cares?
scythe| 6.19.10 @ 10:28AM
That sort of sums up what marriages were for centuries: an economic/social arrangement. And it worked. Marrying for "love' is a recent incarnation in the annals of time and then came all the self-involved reasons for partnering with someone that had more to do with the "me" than the "we". I agree with you about the core of the Clintons' arrangement They may not want to hear it but theirs is a more old fashioned conservative marriage than they may want to acknowledge.
Brian Mc| 6.18.10 @ 6:41AM
Interesting observations. The one that caught my eye the most is the mention concerning "Later Generations". The sixties crowd of misfit leftists were so wrapped up in themselves they failed to realize that their revolution into hedonism was not the end all to beat all.
They thought THEIR progress was perfection. It is amusing that the numbers show cultural revolt in the other direction...expounded upon by your remark, "They'd witness first-hand the disasters that moral relativism, casual sex and no-fault divorce have wreaked on society".
Beautiful
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 3:51PM
YUP, the POLAR BEAR YAWL
Its all about the POLAR BEARS
Quartermaster| 6.18.10 @ 6:54PM
Yeah, the Goracle is simply trying his utmost to prevent global warming so he can save the Polar Bears. I'm sure he's going to board up that mansion near Carthage and move down to a one room, non-air conditioned cabin down on the banks of the Cumberland to save energy.
Those political wives just take too much energy to maintain.
Seek| 6.18.10 @ 5:11PM
People don't divorce because they desire "hedonism" or "casual sex." They divorce because life together has become intolerable, not simply inconvenient. As for money, divorce subtracts from disposable income. It certainly doesn't add to it -- not after the lawyers take their cut.
There are many conservatives out there such as Rush Limbaugh, George Will and, yes, R. Emmett Tyrrell, who have been through a divorce. It's a fact of life. Don't hold it against us.
alyeska| 6.23.10 @ 5:14PM
i was just saying the same thing to newt and rush the other day....
ElGordo| 6.18.10 @ 7:33AM
Was the split up because Gore is a liberal and Tipper was a conservative at heart.
Remember before Clinton selected Gore as VP, Tipper was criticizing trashy records and low morality but had to keep quiet after Al Gore became the dems VP nominee, since a substatial portion of the dem base subscribed to trash and lower morality.
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 3:52PM
ITS BUSH'S FAULT YAWL
c. j. acworth| 6.18.10 @ 6:32PM
I bet Tipper got tired of being nagged to separate the glass from the plastic and don't forget the reusable grocery bag when you go shopping, dear.
ds80| 6.19.10 @ 3:01PM
nah... it's coz she left the $%! light on one too many times.
Louis Jenkins| 6.18.10 @ 8:48AM
Former VP Gore looked at the print out and was aghast. "Tipper how dare you exceed your carbon foot print for the month! It's bad enough that I've got to keep all those extra houses a secret, the limos, and jetting about the continents fighting for the environment, but you go and run the vaccum cleaner, and the dishwasher too! "
The rest was (is) history.
Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 12:19PM
Louis, what ever makes you think that Algore, that fat, hypocrite, bastard, gives a rat's rear end about his or Tipper's carbon footprint??? That bull**** is for the hoi polli's consumption.
Besides, Kitty and Hank would tell you that with Algore off saving the world, Tipper's use of recreational devices increased significantly; unless hotty Tipper found some young stud to keep the carbon burning.
JimP| 6.18.10 @ 8:49AM
Let's make a distinction, please. The 'Boomers' Mr. Orlet is refering to are the leftist anti-war protestor crowd. Those of us who went to Viet Nam and voted in Reagan and voted in Newt's Congress are not like the Clintons or Gores. Divorce among older people immediately skyrocketed in the 70's among the "Greatest Generation" when the laws were changed and the social stigma of divorce disappeared. My point being that it wasn't just 'Boomers' that made the changes (we were too young to control the levers of power or vote on these matters yet) nor were we the only ones to embrace the narcissistic changes. 'Hate' & blame the lefty 'Boomers'- yes, lump all of us with them, - no. Boomers like me [and there are millions of us] 'hate' them more than any of the rest of you do, believe me.
daveng43| 6.18.10 @ 8:57AM
Ah, the good old days when a woman could poison her husband and get away with it.
aleck| 6.18.10 @ 12:55PM
*discreetly* (not discretely) though, eh?
FTM| 6.20.10 @ 6:19AM
Funny that the author mentioned poisioning. There is one direct commandment in the Old Testament Jewish law to kill someone. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Now, to my understanding the word "witch" is more accurately translated as "poisioner."
Also, one of my favorite all time people is the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Tiberius' wife was names Livia. Livia took it on herself to kill, by poison, anyone that she considered a threat to her husband. That was pretty much everybody.
Livia's choice of poison as best anyone can tell was called the "Assassin's Mushroom." You'd eat a dish prepared with this mushroom and all would be well right off the bat. As time passed though the victim would get sick, then sicker culminating in death two to three weeks out. The heir apparent to the empire, Germanicus died this way. Apparently Nero's mother Agriphina the Younger poisioned Claudius using this method too.
Paul Nelson| 6.20.10 @ 4:00PM
I think the quote is "thou shall not suffer a witch to live among you" obviously requiring the witches to live seperately
Doctor Right| 6.18.10 @ 9:31AM
Look, I know Gore has become STINKY rich since he left the VP's job, but...
...Uggh...
...Imagine you're his "love interest", watching this bloated, pasty, corpulent slob disrobe and crawl into bed with you...
...What thoughts would you force into your mind to console yourself??
"He's REALLY smart...And, ummm...The world NEEDS him...And...Ummmmmm...Oh, hell...Just close your eyes and think of the Villa on the Big Island, and the mansion in Georgetown...And...Oh...Gross!!"
Oy...
pete the mediocre| 6.18.10 @ 10:00AM
Now that's hilarious!
Johnathan| 6.18.10 @ 10:34AM
I remember when Al and Tipper vacationed on Figure Eight Island on the Coast of NC.
The first summer I saw them, Al still had his physique, and he was a handsome stud. A real sex pistol.
Alas, each successive summer showed his rapid physical decline. He slowly morphed into a bucket of lard. A lard butt. The fate of us all.
But hey! He's got money, fame, and he will soon be sporting a big-boobed bikini-clad hottie down the beach. And she'll be young--very young. Just you wait.
Evelyn| 6.18.10 @ 10:42AM
Gak! My mind's eye! Pass the mind's eye bleach, please!
Quartermaster| 6.18.10 @ 6:57PM
Thoughts? I would think it would take more like a fifth of hooch to drown such a vision.
alyeska| 6.23.10 @ 5:18PM
yeah, thank god rush limbaugh's fourth wife doesn't have that problem :)
Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 9:34AM
Yeah well, between now and their composting in God's rich earth, they'll do a lot of damage still.
O.K. Here's what really happened with Algore & Tipper. Al & Tipper were sitting around the dining room table, Al was pontificating on AGW, and Tipper's eyes began to roll for the 100th time. Al, upon observing this, gave her a huge sigh, to which Tipper forked her $100 lb Kobe beef steak and flung it in his fat face.
This woman has lived with this mental case for 40 years, granted, the perks were great, but still.... She should get a huge woodchipper and compost the fat bastard all over their new $8M California hacienda.
Oldefarte| 6.18.10 @ 11:35AM
If the gossip about Al's affair with a tree hugging woman are true, the vision of Al naked in bed with a sexy pose is regurgitating and putrid!!!!!
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 3:56PM
ALEX BALDWIN's tumid ass lying in bed scarcely concealed by a sheet in that movie with Meryl Streep is probable a good indicator sir.
That shot in a commercial alone added to Baldwins CAFFEINATED BORE GORE personae steered this ole boy away from that one.
Recovering Clinton Voter| 6.18.10 @ 11:43AM
That kiss was icky. I wish some controlling legal authority had talked him out of it.
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 4:01PM
ONE DAY AT A TIME in recovery from that I IMAGINET!!! Take it slow welcome back to reality YAWL.
Did Hillary Clinton's flacid brain-cushion looking like she was in a child car seat on top o her armchair pose while on Ecuador's NEWS TV aid you in your recovery.
YUP that alone scared hail outta me. Its hard to discern whats wider the bottom, the EGO, the ankles or the CALVES YEEEEEEEEEEECH.
alyeska| 6.23.10 @ 5:20PM
those are called "cankles"
Thunderbottom| 6.18.10 @ 11:50AM
Wow! First, Keith Richards outlives Michael Jackson, then the Clintons' marriage outlasts the Gores'. Didn't see either of those coming.
Seek| 6.18.10 @ 11:56AM
It was only a matter of time before some pundit here would "connect" the Gores' separation with the values of those self-absorbed, hedonistic, rich, narcissistic, want-it-all-now Baby Boomers. Heard it all before -- wake me when it's over.
In the meantime, the Gores had a good and loving 40-year run, which is a lot stronger and longer than most couples last (including back in those good old days when human life expectancy was significantly shorter). Let's put it this way: Forty years is about three times the combined duration of Rush Limbaugh's first three marriages. Let's hope El Rushbo gets it right this time.
Mel Torme| 6.18.10 @ 9:56PM
I think you hit the nail on the head, Mr. Seek, with your bringing up the human life expectancy thing. I believe if Mrs. Gore could only expect a decade or more left to live, she might could have held out with this Gaia-worshiping a-hole, if nothing else for access to good health care and the 20,000 sq-ft winter home.
But, more than a decade with this bloviating idiot would be enough to make any sane woman* make the effort to get the wood-chipper set up (as a poster above mentioned). I don't know if the Gore family would have ever forgiven her, though, for all of the Gorey Carbon "secretions" and "sequesterations" (not due to the gas burned by the chipper, but due to spreading all that Gorey humanity over the landscape) Plus, zoning regulations ....
I am not a sane woman though (being a man that is), so I probably would have just taken him out with a 2x4 back during the Clinton administration. Of course, that would mean that he and I would have been gay. I'm not, but Big Al, hmmm... I heard he was a soccer fan, so, who knows???
FTM| 6.20.10 @ 6:28AM
Consider for a moment, Algore isn't a Gayia worshipping A**hole. Algore and Limbaugh both have two things in common. Neither has anything to sell but mouth and both of them are phenominally successful at running their mouths as witnessed by their bank accounts.
Algore and Rush Limbaugh have both figured out how to get people that are soft in the head to give them their money of their own free will. It's illegal for stupid people to have money, it's a law of nature. It's illegal for stupid people to have money same as gravity.
When I grow up I wanna be just like Algore and Rush Limbaugh.
Mel Torme| 6.20.10 @ 11:35PM
Bullcrap, FTM. No matter what you think of Rush (and I like him), he did not make money by getting the government to coerce citizens to pay for some BS.
Even if you believe none of what Rush says and think his viewers are indirectly (via the advertising) supporting him due to their own stupidity, how is that anything like forcing people (via the government) to pay for a program to enrich oneself (what the Gaia-worshiping a-hole is doing)??
"When I grow up I wanna be just like Algore..."
You're there, buddy! You just did it without passing "Go" and collecting your money. Maybe you are dumber than that Gaia-worshiping A-hole. That is one hell of an accomplishment, if so. Tell me, do you have any honorary degrees? Do you have a Nobel prize of any sort, FTM?
Truth to Power| 6.20.10 @ 9:03AM
It was only a matter of time before a liberal would make excuses for the Gore's pathetic divorce and their phony marriage. Heard it all before-wake me when it's over.
Pat| 6.18.10 @ 12:22PM
"Saddened", "depressed", that's how we Americans should feel upon hearing about Al and Tipper? Whoa there fella, ascribing emotions to their readers is a bad habit among American journalists - guys, gals in the Fourth Estate, just stop it - most of us have never had Tipper and Al over to the house for dinner and we aren't saddened, depressed or even slightly constipated over their breakup. Naturally, you folks need an emotional hook for your celebrity stories, but does it always have to be aimed at the most moronic female twit among us? Ascribing emotions also saves digging out actual facts, lazy work ethics and American journalists are somewhat synonomous descriptions.
How about a mature adult take on these relationship problems - you know, something like Mrs. Tiger Woods was deeply humilitated but, then again, she is now and will remain incredibly wealthy if she doesn't break any important provisions in the Pre-Nup. Plus, like Hillary with Bill, she probably knew about Tiger's harem all along but, like Bill, Tiger's career strengths were part of the calculation, it wasn't all about emotion.
Nor are Baby Boomers unfamiliar with divorce during their childhoods - the older generations, the Silent Generation, the Greatest Generation and parents of those Greatest Folks also had their problems, many families have a story or two of infidelity, cruelty, abandonment - it's actually a minority of Americans who had loving parents committed to each other and their children - lucky them.
But your prognosis for Boomers is spot on - a huge wad of voters who blew their Social Security nest eggs on nonsense causes so they could feel good about themselves and now plan to make their children and grandchildren pay for their old age. The Whining Generation is just getting started and physical degeneration won't slow them down one bit, suspending voting privileges for anyone over 65 isn't a bad idea.
Bilwick| 6.18.10 @ 12:25PM
So based on this article, are we supposed to conclude that the Gores should stay together in a de jure marriage, even if the love is gone and a de facto marriage is no longer in effect?
Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 4:48PM
Yes.
Truth to Power| 6.20.10 @ 8:51AM
It is one thing committing a sin. It is another trying to call an evil, good. With the former there is hope.
Bilwick| 6.21.10 @ 8:30AM
Was someone calling Al Gore's reported adultery "good"? I missed that.
Sheila| 6.18.10 @ 1:26PM
Good article Mr. Orlet; really lousy/trite/standard moral relativist comment thread. Gee, Seek, they had a "good run" - I guess my view of marriage as a sacred covenant (no, I'm not a Catholic) is just so old fashioned. And Bilwick, when the "love is gone" so is the commitment and the family structure and any sense of honor or duty ? Finally, you've all ignored what I regard is Mr. Orlet's crowning point: like all do-gooders, Gore went off to save the world, leaving his marriage to die from neglect. That perfectly articulates what I've always thought when reading tedious comments about the "saintly" Aum Kie something or other from Burma - spending years in prison/house arrest trying to save "her" nation and people, while her husband patiently raised their children who couldn't possibly have been as important as her great cause. I'm so tired of self-proclaimed prophets - I'll stick with those anointed by God.
JP| 6.18.10 @ 2:00PM
It's probably much easier than that. My guess is that ALGORE found a much younger woman. Outwardly she probably worships the ground he walks on. But she more than likely is quietly counting ALGORE's net worth. I wouldn't be surprised if ALGORe will announce in 6-12 months that he is marrying again. And no it isn't Larry David's wife. She is much too old for the likes of ALGORE. I bet the future Mrs Gore is in her late 20s, early 30s. But don't worry about Tipper. She will get half of ALGORE's estate, and she can always become a cougar.
DG| 6.20.10 @ 4:26PM
The Love is Gone... That has a tendency to happen when you're off screwing around with other women. It's hard for a wife to keep the love light burning when her husband is feeding his massive ego with younger women. I feel badly for Tipper, as I know the humiliation a wife suffers when her husband breaks his marriage vows in this way. I knew Al Gore was having an affair as soon as I heard that in their separation announcement he said something to the effect that nobody is having an affair. Dems ALWAYS lie about what they're really doing. I hope Tipper gets AT LEAST half of the cash that Al has amassed with his global warming scam, and that she is able to put this behind her and enjoy the rest of a long and happy life without his nonsense. And JP, I agree with you that I think Laurie David is a bit long in the tooth for someone like Al. I suspect the next Mrs. Gore will be a young hottie, who will just close her eyes and picture the cash...
Bilwick| 6.21.10 @ 12:34PM
"Bilwick, when the 'love is gone' so is the commitment and the family structure and any sense of honor or duty ?"
So you are, then, saying the Gores should stay together even if they now loathe each other? Odd. If someone told me, "I hate you now, but I'm staying with you because duty compels me to," I'd say, "Don't martyre yourself for my skae, toots. You know where the door is."
I'd say the "honor" went out the window when/if Al cheated on Tipper. As for "duty," in my experience that usually translates as "stuff I think you should do without having any rational case to compel you to do." As for "family," I assume neither Al nor Tipper are abandoning their kids.
Norman Conquest| 6.18.10 @ 2:10PM
In the 2000 election when, out of 250 million plus people, the presidential candidates were George W. Bush and the even bigger idiot, Al Gore, the beginning of the end of America became apparent and obvious.
DatsunMark| 6.18.10 @ 3:34PM
Perhaps Tipper's hot flashes were contributing to Global Warming and Algore just couldn't justify being around a reckless global polluter?
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 4:05PM
NO LEGAL CONTROLLING AUTHORITY on earth would allow us to even imagine what discourse, based upon what we were allowed to see publicly, could begin to fathom what erupted outta that pie hole in private.
God Bless Ya Tipper.
TAKE HIS ASS FOR EVERY SINGLE PENNY HE OWNS.
Mel Torme| 6.18.10 @ 10:04PM
Al: I'm getting the California house and my lawyer says I keep the carbon credits, the Prius, and the pool boy.
Tipper: I get both cats, the Firebird, the woodchipper, 1/2 of the tipperware, and the Internet.
Howard| 6.18.10 @ 4:15PM
Al Gore is a fat bore. Tipper is looking for more. In 2000 he was almost "The One". As for me; I aint no Senators son.
AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 6:11PM
I guess you didn't have two secret service escorts watching you type while serving our country as did Albert's Army Journalist billet.
Carol Skaggs| 6.19.10 @ 7:23AM
Too bad the Gories are breaking up. Putting up with either of the phonies is "gory". I suspect since there is no 1st lady? prospect and old Al won't have an oppurtunity to fight the hanging chads again they no longer have to protect the phony image. No one has a clue what goes on in hearts and minds of some of these public people (if they even have either). Forget about them. yuk!!!!! Make the nausea go away.
Ceejay| 6.19.10 @ 10:12AM
They split over religious differences--He thought he was God and she didn't.
J.deVictoria| 6.19.10 @ 10:20AM
The newest rumors in the SF Bay area is that Al and Hillary are ready to come out as a "couple".
lamplight| 6.19.10 @ 7:14PM
Dr. Right: Your word picture of Al Gore disrobing for his new squeeze remind me of what they said when Jackie Kennedy married Aristole Onassis -
"Well, now she is going to know what it is to have old age creeping up on her."
cowgirl| 6.19.10 @ 8:11PM
It is all George Bush's fault that they Gores are divorcing.
FTM| 6.20.10 @ 6:38AM
Not caring one whit about Algore an hizzollady, I just wanted to comment about what a vicious collection of satirists you all are. Funny too.
1. addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
2. given or readily disposed to evil: a vicious criminal.
3. reprehensible; blameworthy; wrong: a vicious deception.
4. spiteful; malicious: vicious gossip; a vicious attack.
5. unpleasantly severe: a vicious headache.
6. characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound: vicious reasoning.
7. savage; ferocious: They all feared his vicious temper.
8. (of an animal) having bad habits or a cruel or fierce disposition: a vicious bull.
9. Archaic . morbid, foul, or noxious.
Yep, that just about decribes what is going on here.
Anonymous| 6.20.10 @ 1:31PM
Baby Boomers get old... Hey, maaan, don't take the brown Geritol!
S.L. Toddard| 6.20.10 @ 2:59PM
Gloating over a couple's divorce. Class-say.
Troll Watch| 6.20.10 @ 4:10PM
At least the divorce happened unlike the Hannity lies about which you gloated. Go back to Debbie Schlussel. That is a marriage you deserve.
Johnny Crockett| 6.20.10 @ 7:10PM
Jim P.: God Bless you 4 your service. A severe sports accident resulting in a multiple fractured skull and a steel plate kept me from serving in the early 70's. I vowed to work in mfg. to create wealth & opportunity for all. U.S. mfg. is 1 of handful of activities that generate 7x the $! Gov't spending doesn't!!! Yes, I hate the 'me' gen. too. 11/02/10 can't come soon enough!
lamplight| 6.20.10 @ 8:20PM
FTM - What was the title of one of Gore's alarums,
"An Inconvenient Truth"? Well, now he is just experiencing one of his own. Folks are just enjoying a quick shot of schadenfreude - that's that German liqueur that takes the edge off the years of stultifying Drone-ology we have been subjected to ever since Gore discovered ice cubes melt, therefore we must be having global warming . You notice he hasn't said a world about the oil spill! He's experiencing a different 15 minutes of fame right now! One that there's no Nobel "Piece" Prize for.... Pile on, folks, you deserve it!
fjdsk| 7.1.10 @ 5:04AM
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