An Inconvenient Truth in Morgantown?

It occurred to me a certain irony: Here I am, trying to put together a caravan of people to drive up to Pittsburgh to check out Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" when it kicks in two weeks...because no theatre in the entire state of West Virginia is owned by anyone or any corporation with the brass cajones (or integrity) to do what needs to be done (that may be pressing the point, I am not sure the distributor has been aggressive in pursuing the state's theatres. But one would think a state where the Governor is considered a very possible candidate for the Vice Presidency in two years (imagine a Clinton/Manchin ticket, her with a telegenic, pro-life Governor of a state that went Bush in both last elections)...)...and I know it will be a bad symbolic gesture to cause global warming in order to hear about the necessity of stopping it.

So, while still trying to get as many people as possible energized about it, largely by pointing out the Pascal's Wager aspect of accepting the notion of Global Warming at all (at least even Christian fundamentalists accept the premise of Pascal's Wager, since their faith and lives are predicated on it), I have to conclude a wiser, sharper and more symbolic gesture would be to get a local theatre to host (or local business to underwrite) at least one showing of this film.

We shall see...I have some spare time next week (tonight's schedule: put the podcast to bed and write a batch of triskadekian cantos I've been putting off)...