"An email from Al and Tipper Gore" states that after 40 years of marriage they had decided to split.

"This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration," the note from Al said.

Tipper's note said, "While I much admire the way that Al has managed to steal nearly a billion dollars from people, all of whom earn a good deal less than we do, and since it's community property and community income, I can live high on the environmentally correct hog and not have to spend another day with a man who is bait for an entire college of proctology."

Sympathy cards to taxpayers.