The University of Tennessee has announced that it will award an honorary doctorate degree to Al Gore for his “visionary leadership.” My dictionary defines “visionary” as “Not founded on fact; imaginary”; as well as “Affected by or tending toward fantasies.” By that standard, the university got it right!
The university also announced that this was only the third person — all of them Tennesseans — to ever receive an honorary doctorate from the school. The other two were Dolly Parton and former Sen. Howard Baker. If only one of these three was entitled to such an honor, I would have gone with Dolly!
1:45 pm on March 3, 2010
