Lindsay's Challenge to Dad Michael

According to an AP wire, (carried in the Washington Post)

"...The 22-year-old actress lashed out at father Michael by calling him a "public embarrassment" and a "bully" in a MySpace blog entry posted Thursday. Earlier in the week, Michael said in an interview with E! that Lohan gal pal Samantha Ronson was "using" his daughter.
Lohan's publicist, Leslie Sloane-Zelnik, confirmed the post by Lohan was legitimate.
"If you have something to say to me, say it to my face _ that's what I have believed my whole life _ don't be a coward and say it to others first, let alone all the media in the world," Lohan wrote. "

Thus, Lindsay is using her MySpace website to tell her (ex-con) father to speak to her in person.

Hypocrisy?

Perhaps, perhaps not. Lindsay seems too clueless to fully comprehend the irony here. Or possibly, she considers E to be public and MySpace to be only minimally public.

Gore on the Lake

I've discussed before the situation in which former VP Al Gore uses a remarkable amount of electricity and natural gas in his home in Nashville.

One of the reasons that this might not be a case of overuse of energy (and thus on the way to hypocrisy) is because the home (10,000 sq ft) in Nashville might have a complicated security system or a complex of offices or something similar.

Now, Mr. Gore has purchased a 100' long houseboat from a local boat manufacturer. The boat is evidently to be equipped with solar panels to generate electricity and is to burn bio diesel (although the wave runner visible at the stern probably uses gasoline like other craft of its kind). Because of these factors, Gore has named the boat bio solar 1 (which the anti Gore community refers to as BS 1). The lake on which it docks is Center Hill Lake. The lake is property of the US Corps of Engineers and docks are the property of the US. The lake is part of the Tennessee Valley project. It is a rather large lake, with 18,000 acres of water surface and 415 miles of shoreline so the boat is not out of place from a visual standpoint.

The boat manufacturer is obviously hoping to sell more such boats based on his famous customer.

Here are some threshold questions that have to be answered before getting into the hypocrisy issue.

Is it possible that Al Gore does not realize that it took a huge energy input to construct this boat?

Is there a conceivable public use or environmental use for the boat or is this simply a prestige purchase with some minimal energy mitigation thrown in to fool people?

McCain Ads vs. Obama - Hypocrisy?

Slate writer, John Dickerson writes an article titled,

""Voters don't mind negative ads. Do they care about hypocritical ones?"

The article is written so that I'm not even sure which of McCain's negative ads was supposed to be hypocritical and also I'm not sure what the hypocrisy is.

I'm guessing that Dickerson thinks that when McCain's ad criticized Obama for not visiting injured soldiers in Germany that was hypocritical because Obama did visit injured soldiers in Iraq.

If my guess is correct, it may or may not be a bit misleading (there are a lot of other factors - chose to give a big speech in Germany and passed up a visit to the injured - however, in Iraq there was no opportunity for a big speech). Notwithstanding the complexity, I can't figure out the hypocrisy.