I’m at lovely Hanover College (IN) for an environmental symposium, holding down the side of truth, justice and affordable energy with Planet Gore colleague Steve Hayward. During our most recent session, a student responded to an environmental activist’s (accurate) assertion that the global warming agenda means far, far more than swapping out some light bulbs and driving a Prius, and asked for affirmation of the idea that one still ought to do whatever one can.

My reply was that one should live one’s principles. With a knowing look, I also observed that, “if you go into the business of insisting that the government make everyone else live by your principles, it is even more important to avoid ostentatiously not living by them yourself – and I think you all know who I mean.”

I thought that their laughter indicated yes. The subsequent jokes about slipping your security detail, and the Mayflower Hotel, indicated that they really didn’t.