To your right, my lovely wife has started a row over whether or not encouraging a 200 pound eight year old to eat Ho-Ho’s constitutes parental abuse. The local reaction is somewhat amusing. Thyroid problems aside, eight year olds ought not be sized to start as linebacker in the SEC. Someone should look into that.

The real point of my post, prior to witnessing the silly defense of filling one’s child’s arteries with super sized portions of LDL, was to discuss the newly emerging neverending hypocrisy of the iconist left. As anyone who lives within earshot of talk radio, The Tennessean, Hannity & Colmes, or even Coast to Coast AM, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has dropped a Superfund sized bomb on Al Gore’s commitment to environmental justice.

A day after a film about his efforts to combat global warming won an Oscar, former Vice President Al Gore was called a hypocrite by a Tennessee group that said his Belle Meade home is consuming too much energy.

The home’s average monthly electric bill last year was just under $1,200, according to bills that The Tennessean acquired from Nashville Electric Service.

“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk (the) walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, identified as a free-market think tank.

Yeah, but the Academy bought it. Now that I’m started, we can add to this compost pile Robert Kennedy, Jr., well known self-righteous crusader for environmental causes, who, like Nancy Pelosi, feels he ought to only travel via private jet, courteously dumping extra tonnages of green house gases into the upper atmosphere a handful of times a week. Mr. Kennedy’s robustly anti-green lifestyle makes Al Gore’s Nashville electric bill look tame (no word as of yet on power usage at the Arlington, Virginia residence).

While we’re on the topic of leftist hypocrisy, one cannot overlook (and how could you, really) Michael Moore, who for all his anti-corporatist, anti-Bush, capitalist hating rantings, felt the need to own 2,000 shares of Halliburton stock. And Rosie O’Donnell, blow hard of blow hards, and the penultimate crusader against all gun ownership, who self righteously arms her bodyguards for her children’s protection (as if my daughter is less worthy of protecting). Click through on that last link and check out some other good stuff, to include the twistedness of Noam Chomsky, Barbra Streisand’s absurd use of an RV for fear of public restrooms, and anti-business raver Ralph Nader’s mutual funds.

But hey - right now is Al Gore’s moment. Let’s let him bask in the glorious guilt he bought with those carbon offsets. As Drew Johnson of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research just noted on H&C, it’s called paying off your liberal guilt.