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This morning, I wrapped up** a very good book — The Assault on Reason by Al Gore. In it, President Elect Mr. Gore discusses his opinions and viewpoints on various topics from the media, to the climate, to technology, all of which are woven together throughout the book into the common thread of democracy and how the lack of reason within our government in recent history — as well as a shift in the way Americans receive and process information — has become a threat to the overall democratic process.

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Uh, wow. I have never seen the data laid out like this before, but from the looks of this graphic, the US uses more gasoline per capita than a bunch of other nations… combined. One can only imagine how much worse it has gotten today, four years after the data in the graphic was gathered.

I am sure that graphics like this make Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Nigeria — the top five importers of oil into the US — very happy because it means more money for them.

Of course, I bet they all wish we were paying them in a currency other than US Dollars, which just hit a new all time low on currency exchanges.

Tons o’ fun.

So, after months of working its way through the judicial system, the case “U.S. vs. I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby” (pdf) has come to a dramatic close after 43 stepped in and commuted Mr. Libby’s 30-month prison sentence because he, the President, thought it was “excessive.” As you can imagine, this made major headlines.

Hooray! Justice prevails!

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