Dear Mr. Gore: Sorry, but the A/C is so high in my office I have to run the heater too.

I don’t know that any comment I could make would be necessary. This Washington Times editorial pretty much speaks for itself — volumes, really, showcasing a backward-looking, isolationist, narrow mindset.

The Bradley Project on America’s National Identity issued a report which contends that America’s national identity is being weakened by the spread of multiculturalism and globalization.

From June 27, 2000, while campaigning for the presidency:

WAYNE, Mich., June 27 — Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.

“I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply,” Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. “Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.”

Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the United States built with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war in 1991.

I just made the second political contribution of my life — $10 to Obama. Ironically, the first such donation was to John McCain in 2000.

Two shots that might make you cringe — from “No One Lives Forever,” circa 2002, which I’m playing now.

Q: What’s black and says, “Auuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhh!”?

A: A henchman… with a spear through his crotch.

Some bad guys (and gals) are harder to kill than others:

The new version of Windows Live Writer rocks.

Holy moly — I haven’t looked in a while.

The current IRS standard mileage rate — which, among other things, is what any reasonable business reimburses employees who drive on company business — is now 50.5 cents per mile.

(Last I looked it was 38 or 39 cents.)

So says the Daily Telegraph.