Meeting of minds: Sheryl Crow versus Karl Rove

With global warming being one of the big challenges facing us at the moment, you'd have hoped we'd have sent in our brightest and sharpest to challenge the Petrochemical-based White House.

Instead, we got Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, fresh off their biodiesel bus tour of the US, offering to talk Karl Rove out of screwing the planet:

They unsuccessfully tried to change the thinking of Karl Rove,
President Bush's top adviser, at a correspondents' dinner Saturday night. "I honestly thought that I was going to change his mind, like, right there and then," Laurie David said.

It's not entirely sure why she thought two minutes with that pair would change the deeply entrenched thinking of half a century, but I suppose it was worth a shot. Doubtless if Ed Begley Jr hadn't been too busy organising an Earth Day pinata party and had been on hand to help, that all-important policy change might have been secured.