Some idle bitching.

A few weeks ago, I got the opportunity to write some serps for Jason Calacanis' human-powered search engine, Mahalo. I happily jumped into serping until something really turned me off. I haven't been able to get the bad taste out of my mouth since then. And I can't just blame Mahalo, because the problem isn't just with them. See if you notice anything funny in the fast facts section of either Mahalo or Wikipedia.

How about Mitch McConnell?

Or on Mahalo...

Or Barack Obama...

On mahalo...

Or Chief Justice John Roberts...

Or on mahalo...

Or maybe John McCain...

On mahalo...

And I could go on. But to make it a little more clear, you won't find it here...

Any good guesses on what I'm bitching about? Am I crying foul over stupid bullshit?

And, in case you haven't gotten it, every single one of our political leaders, past and present, have their religion put on center stage as if that were one of the most important few facts in their biographies. Not votes, not things they've done or positions they've championed. Clearly this is just a reflection of our current political environment where candidates are battling to see who can be the rightest or leftist, or whateverist, at least until the general until we find out who can be the most moderately panderist.

But regardless, at what point do these companies feel the need to not be reactionary to a caustic political environment and not allow us to more easily vote based on definitions not related to voting records and the like.

Maybe this is pushing it a bit, but Martin Luther King, jr once said, "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Maybe we should take his advice, and really judge people only by the content of their character.

I grant you that these are research vehicles, but as soon as an entity divides the line between important facts and just facts, the content becomes somewhat editorialized.

Now, commence with your disagreement.