The DiaTribe Has Spoken

Every now and then I do some purging of my Google Reader. As of this morning I had subscriptions to 78 blogs! Of course I don't read them all, I'm more of a scanner. Some of the serious newsy ones like National Railroad News or Wired Energy I can pretty much blow through the headlines without even bothering to check the synopsis. Green Car Congress and Capt. Spaulding's World at least make me check through the opening lines of the posts. GCC because I want to know when I can afford an EV in my driveway, and CSW because he's a weather geek like me and keeps me up to date on hurricanes and even local storms without screaming at me to take cover and put helmets on the kids and animals. There are some blogs that have finally been voted off my Google island. I've had it with the "I know you are but what am I?" crap of the Democrats versus the Republicans. For that matter the Democrats versus the Democrats, or the GOP versus the neo-conservatives and any other permutations you can think of. Look, I like a good old-fashioned "Nuh unh - Yunh huh" discussion as much as the next guy, but I'm just getting tired I guess. I can pretty much determine the content of the posts based on the source, so why bother? Democrat "Progressive" Blog : Republicans = Bad Republican "Conservative" Blog : Democrats = Bad So now I'm down to a svelte 59 blogs. Oh yeah, and I dumped TheKansasCityPost.com. I hate that guy...