Al and Tipper? Divorce? Why, After All These Years?

Our neighbors, Al and Tipper Gore, shocked friends and family by announcing a divorce after 40 years of hanging together? And by email yet. And they included a little disclaimer that will calm all news hounds who seek more info:

“This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration,” they wrote. “We ask for respect for our privacy and that of our family, and we do not intend to comment further.”

There. That’ll get rid of all questions from the prying press. You got an 8X10 and 30 frames of that? Right. The first suggestion I get when I type “gore” into a Google search field is “gore divorce.” Click on it, and already there are speculations on an affair.

Affair? About 99% of the time there is one. But this time? With stiff Al (erase the pun from your mind, please) who would? And could any man see himself tied to pluperfect Tipper for even one moment?

Al even made the announcement to friends with an email. What kinds of friends do you have that you announce one of the most important personal decisions of your life via email? Duh-h.

And Tipper? Lucious babe that every man pants for (again, pls resist all temptation to grab some double meaning in pants)? Duh-h. Get your picture taken with that, men.

Maybe it’s all what should’a been. The dream marriage of two madly in love kids right out of school, building up to the presidency. Almost. Within 500 votes. You’d have to emmerse yourself in something deep after that.

Back to the “our neighbors” opening of this. Sure. They on one side of Nashville, in one of the ritziest neighborhoods you’d find anywhere; we on the opposite side, in the country. Big difference.

What I wonder more about than the divorce, is how a guy gets the millions it takes to live there, when all he’s ever done for a living is farm and hold public office. Mostly the public office part.