The Internet has long been lauded as a democratizing force that levels the playing field and allows anyone with a computer to participate in the discourse. Because chances are the average person has something more insightful to say than the boners in the entrenched punditocracy, right? Yeah, maybe not.

After all, Digg allowed their thousands of users to compose and vote on ten questions to ask Nobel laureate and former-Vice President Al Gore, and this is #8:

On the one hand, I suppose I'm as curious as anyone to see if Gore has a sense of humor about himself. On the other hand, ugh.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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