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I’ve given up on social news site. Digg, reddit, they’ve all become a mish-mash of often hateful speech (remember “F*** You Texas”) or links to images often punctuated be “WTF”. I just can’t stand to have it polluting my RSS reader.

Really, though, it comes down to this: I’m getting old. I don’t have the time or patience to wade through the cruft to find the original, thought-provoking articles. It’s the same reason I abandoned Slashdot. To paraphrase Matthew Mcconaughey seminal Dazed character: I keep getting older, but the submitters stay the same age. I’ve taken Digg and reddit off my RSS feeds and have decided to stick with bloggers and sites that are edited.

It is often said that the Vice President is “One Heartbeat” away from the Presidency (they are also one scandal away, but that’s another story). While I don’t know if Senator Obama has the experience to be President, it’s a bit of a hypocritical position for Senator Clinton to float the idea of him as her running mate (as VP, of course) while simultaneously saying that he doesn’t have the experience needed to occupy the Office of the President. Either he has the experience to be the President or he doesn’t. If he doesn’t then he shouldn’t be the Vice President. I have to wonder if former Vice President Gore is seeing this as an insult to his skills if the Clinton’s view the Vice Presidential candidate as not good enough for the Presidency.