So, we’re getting a major influx of traffic from Kos and Atrios right now and I don’t know if our local audience is just more polite or if there’s a different national web aesthetic, but everyone and their mother is complaining about the blog layout. So, at least for the mean-time I’ve switched the default scheme to dark-on-light. Just an aesthetic change for now, let me know if I should keep this as the default.
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No, bring back the dark/dark. I manually switched it back.
I would stay dark on light — - much easier to read.
Gosh-darned tourists; we’re real quick to make the trip, love the sights and people, but hafta complain about how the hotel room is so small and funny-smelling. ;-)
I have to admit, I’ve been manually clicking over to the lighter background since I realized it was an option. Whatever you do, the pinstripes are a keeper.
I’m local and not that polite. Just lazy. Hey there’s a poll! I like the dark text on light bg.
Yeah, keep it like this, its readable now. Beforehand it was so darned hard to read I didn’t want to keep coming here.
Being that this is more a blog for Dermocrats to get together, how about varying shades of BLUES?? I like this default. The right side bar is hard to to read however.
Heretics, all of them. MN Publius dark forever!
The light background is easier on the eyes at least for me.
Speaking of complaints..
I am a big fan of Minnesota Matters, really. I think that Mark Heaney is as good as lefty talk radio gets.
It’s also the only chance a conservative is ever going to get to put questions directly to lefty legislators, and I *love* putting questions to lefty legislators.
I’ve called in three or four times in the past couple of months and always gotten on. Unfortunately, I also always get cut off before I am able to follow up and more than once before I even finished a single sentence.
Such was the experience this evening.
If Minnesota Matters is just a daily recitation of the DFL’s talking points, fine. However this evening, Mark, his guest and every lefty caller were complaining about Rep. Kline’s staff working to stifle their voices.
In fact, one of the most consistent complaints I hear from lefties is that conservatives will not sit for an honest debate…..that is B.S. and I’m here to prove it.
I call to have an honest debate; I’m always polite, never interrupt (I’m never on air long enough tell the truth) and bring concise point of view for consideration or critisism…I’ve got plenty thick skin and can take it as well as dish it out, trust me.
After I had been abruptly hung up on tonight, Heaney and his guest went on a rant and made several false statements and ascribed things to my opinion that didn’t exist, but that I was unable to provide a correct to because I was cut off in mid sentence.
I called back to tell the producer (you had left I understand) that if Mark wished to listen to the point I was trying to make he might feel differently…the producer hung up. pffft.
Look, I understand that AirAmerica is a lefty station, and as I say if they want to provide the areas lefty’s with soothing progressive pablum, OK by me.
If lefties will collapse into a coma and drive off the road if they hear anything but their own echos I certainly do not want to make them any more hazardous than they are.
However, I can 100% guarantee that any lefty that calls into the Northern Alliance Radio Network’s “Last Word” on AM1280 will get as much time as they need to make their point before Micheal Brodkorb digs in.
Who is afraid to defend their opinions Matt? Not us.
So what’s the story Matt? Is Minnesota Matters the real deal, or is it the radio version of the MiniMoni sock puppet show?
Dark on light is so so so so much easier to read, especially for those with vision problems to begin with. The national audience is probably nastier, but they’re also right on that score.
Congrats on the Atrios link…very impressive!
Good Lord, Swiftee. I usually ignore your tripe, but get your own f*cking blog. Dark on light or light on dark. That’s the question. Focus, dude. Focus.
I beg you to keep the current look. I could hardly read your stuff the last couple of weeks.
After I had been abruptly hung up on tonight, Heaney and his guest went on a rant and made several false statements and ascribed things to my opinion that didn’t exist, but that I was unable to provide a correct to because I was cut off in mid sentence.
Sounds like exactly the same kind of treatment given to liberals who call into Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or Bill O’Reilly’s radio programs. Granted, I’m new around here, but I sure don’t recall you complaining about them.
Since I don’t listen to radio talk shows, I can’t comment on Swiftee’s complaint. However, I occasionally watch the O’Reilly Report (or whatever it’s called) on Fox and I know he constantly cuts off people trying to make a point. So I’d have to echo Realist’s comments. To keep my blood pressure low, I don’t listen to political radio shows at all (in spite of my leftist leanings I’ve never listened to Air America for the same reasons I don’t listen to Limbaugh or Hannity) and only occasionally read/comment on blogs. See my previous comment on hosts only wanting to hear themselves talk.
Realist,
I can tell you’ve never listened to any of those programs before. O’Reilly doesn’t cut anyone off - except to keep his program moving and he cuts both sides off equally in that respect. Limbaugh puts liberal callers to the front of the call line. Hannity has cut people off, but usually it’s when the caller becomes abusive. Don’t claim liberals are more tolerant than conservatives. I’ve been cut off by Alan Colmes before and even shouted at when I haven’t agreed with his position. It’s called talk radio and it’s supposed to be entertaining.
Hey Swiftee,
according to chris…
“I can tell you’ve never listened to any of those programs before. O’Reilly doesn’t cut anyone off - except to keep his program moving and he cuts both sides off equally in that respect. Limbaugh puts liberal callers to the front of the call line. Hannity has cut people off, but usually it’s when the caller becomes abusive. Don’t claim liberals are more tolerant than conservatives. I’ve been cut off by Alan Colmes before and even shouted at when I haven’t agreed with his position. It’s called talk radio and it’s supposed to be entertaining.”
If I had time to mirror all of the things he said, you would have nothing to argue about on this topic.
I’m not sure I get your point Fred. But while I have heard conservative talk hosts cut people off, it was always because either:
A) The caller began to ramble from one topic to another
B) The caller became abusive
As I said, I am always polite and get right to the point. From a civil discourse perspective, there is no reason to have cut me short…unless the host is not up to defending his position.
Further, I’m not even really talking about national shows. Media Matters is a locally produced lefty show on AM950; The Northern Alliance Radio Network is a locally produced righty show on AM180.
Matt’s conservative “nemesis”, Michael Brodkorb, hosts a show on Saturday afternoon called “The last word”. Not only does Brodkorb welcome calls from lefty’s..he encourages them.
That’s because his opinions are well founded in fact; he’s ready, willing and able to defend them at length.
From my experience with Media Matters (which Matt produces) the exact opposite is true.
Personally, I think that if your argument cannot stand the merest scrutiny, you had better rethink your position. But then again, I’m a conservative…maybe liberals do not need any basis in fact to come to their conclusions.
That sould have been “The Northern Alliance Radio Network is a locally produced righty show on AM1280”
Curious…
You wrote:
“As I said, I am always polite and get right to the point.”
In all discourse or only on radio?
Alan Colmes isn’t a liberal. He just plays a Republican caricature of a liberal on Fox News.
This dark on light is much easier to read. Since a blog’s purpose is for people to read it, then you should keep this.
Fred said: “In all discourse or only on radio?”
Heh…depends on who I’m talking to!
Well Swiftee,
I think that when you say the Mr. Brodkorb has his opinions well grounded in fact I tend to think that they are his own opinions grounded in his own facts.
This also happens on the left.
I also think that it happens to you quite a bit.
merely an observation,
Maybe that is true Fred.
But Brodkorb is willing to put his opinions and facts to the test…and so am I; evidently Matt and Mark are not as confident.
I think that makes a statement in and of itself, don’t you?
Perhaps you are correct, Swiftee.
I have not heard or heard of the program.
Hell, they may have taken a cue from the National talk radio monkeys and decided that it should be entertainment.
Like I say, I have not heard them.
Please correct the right sidebar with lettering in white so that it can be seen. Even with my new glasses, I cannot make hide nor hair what is on the side bar.
Yes - keep the lighter background. While I love MnPublius and I even have it bookmarked - I generally tend to just skim through it because it is so hard to read.
And I agree with a couple of the other posters - fix the side bar - you can hardly read it.
Speaking of complaining….
Does anyone remember the Kids in the Hall sketch “The Eradicator”? The bit cetered around a masked man who would come into boardrooms and such, challenging anyone and everyone on the raquetball board at his health club. He called himself “The Eradicator”, an had a Quixotic view of his abilities and role in the world.
Kind of reminds me of Swiftee.
whatever you do, get rid of this two-tone scheme you have now, uuuggghhh it’s butt ugly. simply clicking the ‘change the look’ button does not help the shock to the eyes for the few seconds after I first click here.
really, this is horrible right now, make a choice one way to the other… soon
I can tell you’ve never listened to any of those programs before
You’re 100% correct. Won’t be listening to them in the future, either. When I need someone to tell me what my opinion is, I’ll ask my wife like God intended.
Don’t claim liberals are more tolerant than conservatives. I’ve been cut off by Alan Colmes before and even shouted at when I haven’t agreed with his position.
You’re not seriously claiming that Alan “Thank You, Sir! May I Have Another?” Colmes is a real liberal, are you? He just plays one on TV.
Realist,
So you admit that you’ve judged shows you’ve never listened to. That begs the question, who told you what to think about those shows you’ve never listened to?
As for Colmes, he most certainly is a liberal. Maybe you should listen to his show instead of being told by someone else what to think of it.