I know it's considered rude to discuss political issues over meals, but I recently saw An Inconvenient Truth, and I've been on an environmental kick ever since. And so it was that last night in my apartment over a dinner of wine chicken marsala a heated discussion ensued that resulted in more than one mild insult traded by the time the bottle of Chardonnay was emptied.

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