02 May 2010

Gores purchase cozy villa as a second home

The Los Angeles Times reports that Al and Tipper Gore have purchased an ocean-view villa with "fountains, six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms."

This will be a welcome change from their main residence; that one, back in Tennessee, has only eight bathrooms.  The paper doesn't note which home they were in for Earth Day.

Via Althouse.

4 comments:

  1. Wait, I'm confused about the math. What on earth do you do with nine bathrooms when you only have five bedrooms? Was this place custom-built for incontinent owners?

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  2. Fletcher -

    I was wondering the exact same thing. I don't get the math.

    Regardless, Gore is so completely tone-deaf. If he truly believed the crap he has made a fortune spewing over the past several years, he'd set an example.

    But, like the Wizzard of Oz, we are not supposed to look at the man behind the curtain.

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  3. I respectfully disagree with you about the "crap" he has "spewed," because there's a tremendous amount of scientific evidence supporting global climate change and not much evidence against. Unsupported denialism does not count as evidence.

    However, I do agree with you that Gore is politically tone deaf. Unless that villa is powered by solar power/wind power/whatever...but I suspect that's too much to hope for.

    The best form of living for a small carbon footprint is in an urban apartment building. If Al and Tipper wanted to walk the talk, they'd settle into a 1,000-square-foot apartment, which is what most of us live in here in urban Portugal. Oh, and they would hang their laundry outside instead of using a dryer.

    I'm not holding my breath on that one.

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  4. Yup, Gore might be right about the environment (or rather, OTHERS are right, and he has accurately voiced that knowledge)... But he's still a damp sock-puppet.

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