Christmas is a week from Tuesday. Wow, that means just 10 shopping days left. One if you put things off til Christmas Eve. Considering the increase in the junk e-mail I've been getting, it looks like the 10-day count is just about right. By the way, is it my imagination or is the mailperson-delivered junk mail on the decline as e-mail usage increases? If you haven't already done so it's time to get out all those Christmas movies you have stored away on DVD and VHS. My favorite, I think, is the classic "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. Those are two guys that the word suave was coined for. The movie, in my opinion, is much better for the season than "It's a Wonderful Life." Getting back to e-mails, a friend of mine told me that when he returned from a week's vacation recently he had over 800 of them waiting to be opened. I told him I haven't received 800 messages since Al Gore invented the Internet. "Well," my friend then admitted, "half of them were checking to see how adequate one of my body parts was." Really now. ...more

December 15, 2007

Nobel laureate Al Gore said Thursday that the United States is "principally responsible" for blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference, and European nations threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington compromises on emissions reductions. ...more

December 14, 2007

Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and urged the United States and China to make the boldest moves on climate change or "stand accountable before history for their failure to act." ...more

December 11, 2007

Al Gore is a man of some stature. He was a U.S. senator and a vice president. Lately he has promoted global warming. Mr. Gore is a wealthy man that uses 20 times as much energy as the average family. He flies by private jet and drives SUVs, all of this while lecturing to the rest of us to conserve. ...more

December 6, 2007

World powers meeting at a United Nations climate change conference in Indonesia this week will be unable to craft a meaningful plan on global warming without cooperation from the United States, top greenhouse gas emitter, the U.N. climate chief said Sunday. ...more

December 3, 2007

Last Christmas, Donna Hoffman, an ardent environmentalist who lives in Austin, Texas, came up with an unlikely gift for each member of her family: an energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulb. ...more

December 2, 2007

After being critically wounded in a shooting at his Miami-Dade County home, Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor responded to simple commands from doctors Monday night after surgery. Known as a hard hitter in the NFL, he did not play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday because of a knee sprain. ...more

November 27, 2007

Al Gore announced Monday that he is joining Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to help the private sector take on global warming, and perhaps make some money. ...more

November 13, 2007

There are only two more nights of NBC's "Green Week." Are you ready to hug a tree yet? ...more

November 8, 2007