Speaking from on high, Al Gore proclaims your new rights:

The former vice president managed to find time this past weekend to post a series of videos on his peer-to-peer video sharing site, Current.tv – including one calling for “government-funded” health care. Gore is chairman of Current.tv.

In a setting reminiscent of a bored college student making a video in his dorm room, Gore is shown proclaiming that healthcare in America “ought to be a matter of right,” addressing what he thinks to be an “immoral” healthcare situation.

You know what uses a lot of electricity -- other than the Gore Estates & Private Airways Co., LLC? An MRI, that's what. So what happens when your "right" to unlimited MRIs-on-demand starts drowning polar bears or causing puppies to spontaneously combust or snail darters to feel a certain ennui?

Well then, Big Dumb Al is going to have to curtail your rights, that's what. Which should be easy for him, now that he's in the business of granting them.

UPDATE: For a more sober take, check out David J.