File this under amazing timing. The University of Tennessee in Knoxville has recently seen fit to award Al Gore an honorary Doctorate.
Gore will receive the degree — an Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology — at the spring commencement exercises of the College of Arts and Sciences on May 14. He will be the featured speaker at the ceremony, addressing graduates and their families along with the gathered faculty.
Evolutionary biology??? WTF??? Maybe it’s for the discovery of the half-man-half-bear-half-pig species known as Homo Ursu Porkulus. It has an extra chromosome, you know.
So, the Knoxville News Sentinel ran an op ed saying “Al Gore a fine choice for honorary degree” and at the same time ran a reader poll on their website. Here’s the result as of 10:30 pm PST 3/3/10:
Must be all them toothless Tennessee rednecks clinging to their guns and religion and pickup trucks. They don’t understand that the core of the earth is millions of degrees. It’s peer-reviewed and all that shit.
So, Glenn Reynolds, what say you about your University handing MBP a plastic doctorate that says something about “laws”?
It’s real. It’s happening now:
