When Charles Krauthammer coined the term "Bush Derangement Syndrome" some years back, he was well-within his competence in doing so. After all, he is a trained mental health professional. Now that Paul Krugman tries to label those of us who think that Al Gore did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize as suffering from Gore Derangement Syndrome, I'd like to point out that he is practicing medicine without a license.

On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall Street JournalÂ’s editors couldnÂ’t even bring themselves to mention Mr. GoreÂ’s name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the prize more.

Yeah, that some of us might argue that a bunch of human rights campaigners and courageous opponents of dictatorship are a wee bit more deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize than the Gore is obviously a sign of psychological problems -- NOT. After all, that is who the WSJ list includes, not Rush Limbaugh or a who's who of right-wing pundits.

Krugman then goes on to list other folks opposing the hypocritical carbon sasquatch who demands that everyone except him cut back on their "carbon footprint" while selling latter day indulgences to violators.

And given that there is not a clear scientific consensus in favor of man-made global warming (whatever the political or pop-culture consensus), opposition to the Gore agenda is not a sign of mental illness -- it is a sign of critical thinking.

Posted by: Greg at 11:35 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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