No Joy
This is not something I take any pleasure in reporting. Al Gore III, the son of the former vice president and current climate Cassandra hysteric has been arrested for possession of drugs. He was arrested after getting caught screaming down the highway in his Prius at 100 miles per hour.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 24-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was stopped for speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff's official said.
Al Gore III — whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight global warming — was driving his environmentally friendly car at about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at about 2:15 a.m.
The deputy smelled marijuana and searched the car, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. The search turned up a small amount of marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Adderall and Soma. There were no prescriptions found, he said.
Gore was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and booked into the Inmate Reception Center in Santa Ana, about 34 miles south of Los Angeles, on $20,000 bail. Although he quickly identified himself as the son of the former vice president, Amormino said Gore received no special privileges.
I started out writing this post trying to describe my relationship with my own father, then decided not to publish that right now. Maybe someday, but not now. I'll just point out that Al Gore III may have, consciously or unconsciously, timed his actions at a time or in such a way as to do maximum damage to his father.
I have not exactly made a secret of my opinion of the father here. I think Al Gore is a hypocritical, lying opportunist trying to line his pockets at the expense of this country and Western civilization in general. (See Roger Simon's slam on the sins of the father, so to speak). But Gore III is an adult and one cannot help but think he did this for maximum impact. Whether he was planning it on a conscious level or not. This arrest will detract from the self-aggrandizement of Gore the father's concert extravaganza in only a few days.
UPDATE: Used the term "cassandra" improperly, which is why I should not post after a long day in the hot sun.





