Ed, give the headline writers a break. Don’t you recall sweeping bodies off the stoop for weeks after the TMI disaster? Al Gore does.

As he “testified” to Hollywood Henry Waxman early this Congress, “I’ve been to Chernobyl. I’ve been to Three Mile Island.” Tomato, tomahto. That’s how they get to the position that nuclear power is not a tolerable response to the, er, Greatest Threat Facing Mankind. Which places this latest GTFM somewhere behind greater threats of smashing atoms, dams, windmills where birds fly or Kennedys live, forests to absorb CO2 (they’re “monocultural,” you see — and we can’t have that) — to say nothing of genetically modifying those trees to make them even more CO2-slurping.

And to think some people say Team Gore doesn’t have any sense of perspective.