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I was astounded to read about Al Gore's new book in PW. The title: The Assault on Reason: How Our Democracy Has Been Damaged and How It Can Be Healed is so preposterous in its presumed backhanding of conservatives that I can only liken it to a fanciful book entitled, Kim IL Sung: How to Defend Freedom of the Press. Now I can understand how fanciful the war on Iraq must look from the perspective of the liberal mind set, how damaging to our children's minds the teaching of Intelligent Design must seem, how thoughtless the conservative desire not to provide abortion and condoms on demand but Al Gore simply strains credulity with this title. When you have public schools that are virtual prisons with thousands of students randomly beaten every year, 18,000 murders a year on US soil (there have only been 3,000 + US causalities in Iraq in four years), a vast swath of the population addicted to drugs of all kinds, a third of the population born out of wedlock and rape and pornography rampant, one would hardly look to the conservative doorstep to lay blame for these afflictions. I think if any party can be accused of failing to take into account the consequences of its "rationality" it is the Democratic Party but then again, it depends on what you mean by is. A more thoughtful title for Al Gore's Book might have been: How Our Democracy Has been Damaged by the Brain Dead Members of the Left and Right and How We Can Fix It.