I read this article on MSNBC about Al Gore and whether he's planning another presidential run a couple days ago, and meant to blog about it:

Gore has a certain aura of nobility about him these days - a mixture of rue, acceptance and lofty goals that makes him almost, well, endearing. As I talked to him at the East Coast premiere of the documentary film about him ("An Inconvenient Truth"), I wondered whether his new-found sense of peace and purpose meant that he had given up the idea of ever running for president again - or whether that is precisely what, in an indirect, Zen-like way, he’s doing. My answer to my question: he's available if fate decides to befriend him.

Al Gore is Zen-like?  Al Gore?  You mean this guy?  I mean, I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same guy... because Zen-like is not a phrase I'd ever use to describe him.  My friend Be also sent me this from the L.A. Times (free registration with DNA sample required), in which Jonah Goldberg describes him as "'a new Al Gore' - more relaxed, more passionate, more this, more that."

Uh huh.  Yeah.  Surrrrre.  Let's give it a little more time, and see if, surrounded by his echo chamber of liberal glitterati, he doesn't return to his screaming pitiful ways again.