REGO No More

Bad news for fans of the old "reinventing government" movement. Al Gore says he has "absolutely no plans and no expectations" of ever running for president again. Gore was arguably the greatest student of the bureaucracy ever to serve a heartbeat away from the presidency, but came up a little short in the charisma department. Which brings to mind a line from the wonderfully funny song "Wintertime Blues," by the incomparable John Hiatt on his recent album, Master of Disaster:

And it's a one, two

My lips are turning blue...

And it's three, four

I'm stiff as Al Gore...