A new personality cult?

Gaia Napa Valley Hotel decided to become California's first hotel certified as "green" or environment-friendly. Visitors will find the rooms equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper. But that's not all.

Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of "An Inconvenient Truth," former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming. (Bloomberg.com)

Gore replaces God. The mind boggles, says Scott Gilbreath (aka StatGuy) from Magic Statistics. In Soviet Union it was called a personality cult.

While Al Gore still believes his book can share the nightstand drawer with the bible which he often quotes during his lectures, his 'holier-than-thou' disciples want their idol to stop quoting the rival scripture. They want "An Inconvenient Truth" to be the only inerrant source of information when it comes to discussing climate change.

As for the managers of the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and their desire to make it the greenest hotel in the world - how come they forgot about Sheryl Crow the Brownfinger who suggested limiting the use of toilet paper to one square per visit? How come we've heard nothing about high tech toilet paper dispensers that would record the information from magnetic key cards, ensuring nobody gets more than one square per visit? Why would the first certified green hotel allow its guests to waste toilet paper?

Apparently they realize that if they limit toilet paper the guests will reach for the Gospel of Saint Al in the nightstand drawer.