Career changes R us

The recent unplesantness in my adopted home state probably has nothing to do with it -- all those automated campaign calls notwithstanding -- but it looks like Al Gore has decided on a career change. Gore in Talks to Acquire Cable News Channel, says the Boston Globe link from Romenesko). Al Gore the owner of a news network, however small? Then what's he going to do if he runs for office again -- put it in escrow? Unless Gore is giving up politics, it doesn't make sense.

Also from the Globe, another article on the Episcopalians who want to turn back the clock to 1928, negating this summer's confirmation of a gay American bishop. The reactionaries want permission to ally with more conservative dioceses outside the U.S., saying they don't want to be associated with the American church anymore. The mainstream conservatives say unity is more important. Meanwhile, the Roman Catholics are quick to stick their oar in, saying the American church's approval of bishop Robinson threatens moves toward unity. What moves? The Catholic hierarchy has been drifting away from its own people for fifty years now. They should worry about unity in their own denomination.

And finally, who could resist a story about something called a Whizzinator?