What Year Is It?

I don't know who's more late, Al Gore or this columnist:

In closing his 45-minute presentation in Boston, Gore shows one last, majestic shot of Earth. “We don’t have any other home, so our job is to keep our eyes on the prize.”
When he is finished, the audience is slightly stunned, and walks out talking about how they’ll never forget this night. Somebody says maybe delivering this environmental S.O.S. is the former vice president’s true calling. He’s so full-throated now, so sure of himself in this campaign, that maybe this was the thing he was meant to be doing all along? Nah…

Originally published 7/4/12