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Now millennials can add “bad tippers” to the roster of negative stereotypes they’re associated with. According to a new study from creditcards.com, 10% of millennials do not tip at all when eating out. In contrast, only 3% of the older generations don’t tip. Even when millennials do tip, the study found that the median gratuity is just 15%. This is under the national average, and significantly less than Gen-X, baby boomers, and the ‘Silent Generation,’ all of whom leave a median tip of between 18 and 20%. The same attitude applies to tipping those who provide services, such as Uber...

Al Gore, though not divorced from wife Tipper, confirmed he is indeed dating environmental activist Elizabeth Keadle. “I don’t want to get into my personal life, but we’re a couple,” the 66-year-old former presidential candidate told Politico. The former Vice President and his wife shocked supporters in 2010 when they announced their separation after 40 years of marriage. The parents of four have yet to actually divorce. One year after the split, their daughter Kristin told People magazine she couldn’t imagine her parents ever dating other people — but her prediction failed to prove true.

They may have felt really awkward after seeing how they ended up making total fools of themselves but the cringing by viewers is much more difficult to endure. 1. Algore getting his lips locked when Tipper tried on her crazy glue/lipstick combination for the first time that afternoon. 2.Biden's "This is a Big F**king Deal" to Yobama 3.President Bush Sneaking up Behind The German Chancellorgripping her shoulders for what seemed like an hour 4. Quayle and His World Class Spelling Skills 5.Special Advisory Must Be Administered Before You Can View This Particular Moment When a Man Gets Transformed from Respected...

**SNIP** Gore outlines a conflict in which the "global mind", an educated world population united by the internet, is pitted against Earth Inc, global corporations with no national allegiance, which cannot see past the next quarter, alongside politicians who look no farther than the next set of growth figures. Quarterly capitalism he calls it, which measures profit and forgets to measure consequences like pollution. Jobs are no longer being outsourced abroad, they are being robo-sourced, he says - lost forever to technology. He talks not so much in complete paragraphs as draft chapters, fizzing with ideas and references, from Burma...

Long Celebrity Marriages that Didn't LastBy Amy and Nancy Harrington, Pop Culture Passionistas Wed, Oct 26, 2011 2:42 PM PDT **SNIP** Al and Tipper Gore - 40 Years Their passionate kiss at the 2000 Democratic National Convention was one of the most well known examples of PDA in political history. But after 40 years, former-Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper decided to separate. Although they broke the news in June of 2010, confirmation of a divorce has never been published. In the meantime, the Current TV chief has managed to sidestep a few rumors of affairs and was...

Political Wives' 'Tipper Point' Is Way Too LateBy Sandra Kobrin WeNews commentator Thursday, May 19, 2011 Maria Shriver asked for privacy this week in the matter of her breakup with Schwarzenegger over his "love child." Sandra Kobrin says sorry, but when a woman stays married to a powerful womanizer, the personal turns deeply public and political. Tipper Gore is the woman now divorced from her husband, former Vice President Al Gore, a prominent social activist, after 40 years. In June 2010, she gave notice just three weeks before allegations of sexual abuse by her husband against a massage therapist in...

US Government admits satellite temperature readings “degraded.” All data taken offline in shock move. Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high. The fault was first detected after a tip off from an anonymous member of the public to climate skeptic blog, Climate Change Fraud (view original article) (August 9, 2010). Caught in the center of the controversy is the beleaguered taxpayer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA’s Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis has now confirmed that the fast spreading story on the respected climate skeptic blog is true. However, NOAA spokesman, Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis...

In a bombshell new development in the AL GORE SEX SCANDAL, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that the former vice president has finally been interviewed by police in the Molly Hagerty case. Sources close to the investigation reveal that detectives from the Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau traveled quietly to San Francisco on Thursday for the secret meeting with the 62-year-old Nobel Prize winner. "Al Gore has finally been interviewed face to face by detectives in the Molly Hagerty case," a close source told The ENQUIRER. "Details of what was disclosed in the police interview by Gore --and exactly how long...

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton and his wife who is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will marry investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, New York on July 31, 2010 with neither Al Gore or Tipper Gore in attendance. In fact, it isn’t even certain if the Gores have been invited to the wedding ceremony and celebration, though it is assumed they were. The press, undoubtedly have been keeping their eyes on how the Gores were going to handle this social occasion since they are close to the Clinton family. Chelsea's wedding is sizing up to be the...

People Magazine: Tipper stands by Al GorePosted: July 7th, 2010 12:46 PM ET A friend says Tipper Gore does not believe the recent allegations leveled at her husband. Washington (CNN) - Tipper Gore doesn't believe the allegations that a Portland masseuse made about her husband, former Vice President Al Gore, and according to a Wednesday article in People Magazine, the allegations played "no role whatsoever in the decision" of the couple to separate. People Magazine interviewed a "close friend of the Gores'" for an article posted online regarding the couple's recent split and subsequent allegations against the former vice president....

Vice President Gore and Tipper Gore pose for a Halloween photo in costume on the front steps of their residence in Washington, D.C., in this White House handout photo on October 28, 1995. Tipper was dressed as Belle, while Vice President Gore was dressed as the Beast.

Per the Smoking Gun: It is unclear why, two years later, she approached Portland police and sought to memorialize her allegations against Gore, who she portrayed as a tipsy, handsy predator who forced her to drink Grand Marnier, pinned her to a bed, and forcibly French kissed her. The woman's statement--which could be mistaken for R-rated Vice Presidential fan fiction--describes Gore as a man with a "violent temper as well as extremely dictatorial commanding attitude besides his Mr. Smiley Global Warming concern persona." After fleeing Gore's suite, the woman returned home to discover, a la Lewinsky, "stains on the front...

A Portland massage therapist gave local police a detailed statement last year alleging that former Vice President Al Gore groped her, kissed her and made unwanted sexual advances during a late-night massage session in October 2006 in a suite at the upscale Hotel Lucia. The woman told investigators that she informed two friends and kept the clothes she wore that night, including her black pants with stains on them. But Portland police didn't contact any of the woman's friends, obtain the potential evidence or interview anyone at the hotel, records show. "The case was not investigated any further because detectives...

Laurie David, the former wife of Larry David, the Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator, said a tabloid report that she had an affair with former US vice president Al Gore was "completely untrue." Mr Gore announced two weeks ago that he and his wife Tipper were separating after 40 years of marriage and said no-one else was involved. ... Mrs David and comedian Mr David, divorced in 2007. In a statement to the Huffington Post website she said: "The story is completely untrue. It's a total fabrication. I adore both Al and Tipper. I look at them both as...

Conservative columnist and radio talk show host, Dave Weinbaum answers the burning (as in "global warming") question. Watch the video.

(June 3) -- One big reason why the Al and Tipper Gore split-up comes as such a shock is because the former vice president and his wife worked so hard to project a public image of the perfect couple in a perfect marriage. And for the most part, we bought it. Whether it was real or whether it was Memorex, only time will now tell. But there were clues all along that the storybook image might not have been quite as advertised. The biggest clue was that they seemed to be overdoing it. Good marriages just are. You don't have...

It was only three weeks ago that the Los Angeles Times reported that Al and Tipper Gore had bought new digs. The couple purchased an $8.8 million ocean-view villa in the gated community of Montecito, California. The 6,500-square-foot villa tucked on one-and-a-half acres of grounds includes a swimming pool, a spa, fountains, five bedrooms and nine baths. That can now be added to the lists of things the Gores have to split if they officially call it quits. The couple told friends Tuesday they planned to separate after 40 years of marriage. This comes after the Gores' kids -- Karenna,...

Is there anything a journalist cannot or will not twist to bring the topic back to how life would be so much better if only not for that awful George W. Bush? On Tuesday's CBS Evening News, with the help of the Washington Post's Sally Quinn, Sharyl Attkisson managed to blame news, that Al and Tipper Gore are separating, on how they never got over being denied the presidency despite winning the popular vote in 2000. If only Bush hadn't taken it from them. Attkisson recalled “it's been ten years since that oddly public passionate kiss at the Democratic convention....

<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage.</p>

One can imagine that living with Al Gore is a living hell. I would say that about all politicians but especially Al Gore. All of them are insanely driven to power, but in Al Gore’s case the 2000 election dispute changed him as a man. He started acting strangely. He took a teaching job for a spell which was metaphorically a time out from life. The long beard appeared soon after the recount, and then the fat Al Gore emerged as if he was eating every vote and voter. Al Gore became the butt of late night talk show monologues....