Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

This really is a full service blog.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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  1. 1.

    scs

    Well, like how your name and email shows up automatically now, that’s one thing.

    I miss having the comments open while you can read the main page.

    I miss how you scroll down all the way and get to the end, instead of not knowing with the ‘next pages’ how much more there is.

    I miss the ‘preview’ on the comments

    I miss the gray color.

    I miss it all!

  3. 3.

    Brian

    Too much credence given to Oliver Willis’ comments. Ignore them. That’s what’s wrong with the site.

    Oh, you meant the design? Fine, although I did feel nothing was wrong with the old one.

  4. 4.

    SomeCallMeTim

    You could use standard capitalization (“Redesign”). More seriously, I think a two column format would suit, and if you used drop down plugins, it wouldn’t effect the blog roll at all.

  5. 5.

    Clever

    Empty list element under “to the left”

    Text size changer to the top [possibly in blue bar below banner, would have to resize text & images]

    contact info? [again, possibly in blue bar]

    Comment preview, definately.

    More cowbell.

  7. 7.

    SomeCallMeTim

    One other suggestion: separate “Center to Right” into “Center” and “Right.” I’m curious about how the groupings would shake out (and I suspect that people you think of as “Center” are considered pretty far to the right by Democrats or GHWB Republicans).

  8. 8.

    Tim F

    Rather than alphabetically, the blogroll should be ordered by how long it’s been since they linked to you.

    I had some other comments in an email awhile back, but I’ve already forgotten what they were. Easter eggs might be cool.

  9. 9.

    John Cole

    When I try to go to a pre-redesign post from Bloglines, I get a 404 error.

    Working on that. Should be a few days.

    I think a two column format would suit, and if you used drop down plugins, it wouldn’t effect the blog roll at all.

    Maybe in the future when I get comfortable with WP. This is the ‘for now’ look.

    Empty list element under “to the left”

    Text size changer to the top [possibly in blue bar below banner, would have to resize text & images]

    contact info? [again, possibly in blue bar]

    Comment preview, definately.

    OK

    One other suggestion: separate “Center to Right” into “Center” and “Right.” I’m curious about how the groupings would shake out (and I suspect that people you think of as “Center” are considered pretty far to the right by Democrats or GHWB Republicans).

    Monkeys might fly out of my butt, too. It took long enough to get that working with all the .rdf feeds.

    Rather than alphabetically, the blogroll should be ordered by how long it’s been since they linked to you.

    An idea.

  11. 11.

    Clever

    Quickie question: Did you mean for the site links to go to the parent domain [johngcole.com/bj/]? I manually entered a couple links using just balloon-juice.com and they seemed to work fine.

    Example:
    http://johngcole.com/bj/?p=4961#comments

    and

    https://balloon-juice.com/?p=4961#comments
    …both go to the same place.

    Just one of those things that search engines will pick up, as well as statcounters…might not see all your traffic data recorded correctly, otherwise its not that big a deal.

  13. 13.

    Clever

    Clever Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    Quickie question: Did you mean for the site…

    Awaiting moderation? Guessing because I submitted it from the baloon-juice.com/?…. type in.

  15. 15.

    p.lukasiak

    Personally, I think you should eliminate the “Three column” approach, and just do your blogroll under the ads.

  16. 16.

    Clever

    Clever- Patience. It takes time for things to sync up.

    Sorry. Too much coffee and coding today.

  17. 17.

    O.F. Jay

    John, don’t forget to set your domain name in the options if you want to keep using Balloon-Juice.com Otherwise WP will keep using johngcole.com/bj as the site’s domain. OH yeah, think I can make it on your blogroll now? :-p

  18. 18.

    neil

    The only problem I have is that when hovering over links in Mozilla, they turn to black-on-black. Quite annoying.

  19. 19.

    BinkyBoy

    I’ve noticed that comments will appear and disappear, such as in the newest immigration post, my comment disappeared for 10 minutes, then came back but was ordered differently than before.

  22. 22.

    The Commissar

    Technically, you seem to be at about my level – knows just enough to be dangerous. :)

    Trackbacks on WordPress are not so good. They work, but each one is manual. Movable Type ‘discovered’ TB’s automatically. As near as I can find out, you have to paste the target TB URL into that box in your control panel.

    As far as incoming TB’s go, it seems you have to monkey around a bit with your templates to display the Trackback URL for your readers.

    After endless mucking around, I finally determined to solve one of the TB issues first (either incoming OR outgoing). When that on was resolved, onkly then did I swithc my attention to the other aspect.

    Email me if I can be of more help on this.

  24. 24.

    j.d.

    John-To enable pop-up comments, simply add the line

    somewhere inbetween the and tags of your template. The two numbers are the dimensions of the window.

    I’m going to play with the auto-Trackback feature and see if I can’t get it to behave.

  25. 25.

    Stormy70

    Looking good, thanks for going with the elctric blue. I shall now perform a commenting jujitsu test.

    We should get a bottle of Laphroig sent to us on our 500th comment. Just send the cheap stuff for the 100th.

  26. 26.

    Stormy70

    Posted in other thread, how can this remember my info, so I don’t have to type my name and email over and over?

  28. 28.

    John Cole

    Scott- I have seen pictures of you. You aren’t old- not even by a stretch. Please tell me you are joking.

    If not, hit the text enlargening function down in the lower right.

  29. 29.

    Jane Finch

    Call me a liberal reactionary, but I liked the old one fine. Like Scott says…it’s all out of proportion now.

  30. 30.

    jill

    I absolutely agree with JaneFinch that the old design was great. John, you say that the old design was hard for some to read but I think this new design is hard to read. This text is too skinny, not bold enough.

  31. 31.

    Mr Furious

    The top banner link back to the main page is NOT working for me anymore. It did for a while yesterday. At the time it was working, the banner appeared centered. It is now back flush left.

    I am on a Mac, using Safari.

    UPDATE: I just tried the site in Explorer. The banner is centered on the main page and on a comment page, and the link works.

  32. 32.

    The Commissar

    You should show your RSS feed URL in your sidebar. An earlier commenter said something about “new bookmarks not showing in RSS.” I think that means that your old RSS feed URL no longer applies. It likely changed when you switched to WP.

  33. 33.

    Doug

    Don’t know if it’s a bug or a feature (or maybe I just missed it), but I couldn’t find a link to send some e-mail your way.

    (Incidentally, I was just going to send you a pointer to a copy of a letter posted by TPM from former CIA agents to Congressional leaders regarding talking points about Plame being undercover or not. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/intel.officers.letter.pdf)

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