Tim Blair writes:

I’ve been trying to come up with a violently destructive Gaia-raping stunt for us to participate in on Live Earth day, but it is literally impossible for even several thousand non-millionaires to match Live Earth’s own level of eco-vandalism while remaining within their means and the law.

We’ve been out-carboned by Big Environmentalism. There’s simply no way we can come close to matching the colossal carbon output of Gore and his musical mates.

And NBC is essentially sending a modern day Martha Quinn to breathlessly VJ the concert. If the legacy networks were truly objective, wouldn't they want someone to report from an even slightly contrarian position just to create the penumbra of the aura of the emanation of resembling being fair and/or balanced?

Speaking of MTV, astonishingly, Kurt Loder, the longtime MTV commentator and former Rolling Stone journalist actually says something negative about a Michael Moore movie! I thought these things didn't happen in New York since Pauline Kael went off to the great press junket in the sky.