I'm racking my brain and trying to think when the presumed (or hopeful) Presidential candidate picked his VP. This used to be a function of the Party Nominating Convention. In this sound bite, hip-hop, everything has to be quick--except the election cycle--why should the candidate pick the bottom of the ticket? And who really cares about a VP nominee anyway? When is the last time anyone said, "I was going to vote for X, until he chose Y as a running mate."?   When Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro that was supposed to get him the women's votes. It didn't.

I've been voting for the last 46 years (not starting in a Presidential year). The last forty of them has seen the process get more and more F'd Up. It angers me, and I don't know what to do about it. And that angers me more. Apparently the Big Three networks don't consider the conventions newsworthy enough to do gavel to gavel coverage anymore; will the cable newsies do it? But what if you don't have cable? I guess you're SOL.

Grumble! Growl! I'm gonna go eat dinner now.