Monday digest

- In the above photo, Al Gore takes the mike at Live Earth to tell all of us 9 to 5'ers to take public transit after whispering to Cameron Diaz that next time she wants to go to Peru with her Mao Zedong purse in tow, he'll be happy to dispatch her aboard his private jet so she can avoid a PR disaster the size of her carbon footprint by flying commercial.

Post-mortems here, here and here.

- She's ba-ack: less than two months after saying she was quitting the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan has put Democratic pol Nancy Pelosi in her sights, threatening to run against Pelosi in her San Francisco district unless Pelosi launches impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

Comment? Well, like former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney once said, "there's no (publicity) whore like an old (publicity) whore." (Addition mine.)

Yes, it's crass, but also very appropriate.

- Toronto amusement park Canada's Wonderland has settled with a Sikh man who alleged that a requirement to wear a helmet in place of his turban on a go-kart ride constituted a human rights violation. To me, there should be a rule: if you don't want to wear a helmet for religious or any other reason, that's your choice, but in so doing, you would forego your right to a lawsuit claiming negligence on the part of the track and you would also have to pay the full cost of your own health care should you suffer an injury to your head which could have been prevented by wearing a helmet.

- A look back at the Democratic debate at DC's Howard University, here.

- It could be argued that often the cure seems sometimes worse than the disease when it comes to overseas interventions by the US government, but pulling out of Iraq would represent a massive sea change in traditional American foreign policy. We ought to be careful what we wish for, because we just might get it.