The French Chef and those pesky kitchen mishaps
As we all know, the launch of 3.0 on Red State was accompanied by certain, uh, technical difficulties, and these keep recurring from time to time. In restaurant-speak, too many caches spoil the broth!
Now Red State is a fantastic franchise, as the Wall Streeters might put it. RS is more civil and disciplined than Free Republic. Its community-based structure gives it an interactive quality that makes it more interesting than the magazine sites like NRO or The Weekly Spectator. Its hit count is enormous by righty blog standards, and RS is followed by the movers and shakers of Washington DC. It is, simply, indispensable.
But there ARE those technical difficulties. Pushing the food analogies a bit further, RS reminds me of a first class French restaurant. When it is good, it's REALLY good. But when you walk in on a bad day, there's hell to pay. The kitchen accidents have everyone in a tizzy, the maitre d is having a meltdown, the chefs are snarling at the customers, who are throwing things at the staff.
That's where sites like The Minority Report come in. TMR's platform has been remarkably stable. The recent screen modifications make it easy on the eye. Its input format is much easier to follow than the one on RS 2.0, and the improvements on 3.0 came at a price, as we all know.
Diversity in the righty blogosphere,, or perhaps the better term would be diversification, seems like an especially good thing these days. Because as delicious as baron de boeuf aux champignons might be, sometimes you're just hungry and want a burger and fries. TMR is open 24/7. And we're always willing to sling our frites anywhere!
You articulated why I kinda gave up on offering my paltry fare onto Redstate. The new format got in the way technically and my infrequent insights just aren't worth the pain of getting on the big board.