I just love Talking Points Memo. Nobody reliably connects the dots like Josh Marshall, while the crack staff of political reporters he's assembled consistently deliver the news I need with the attitude I want. But as much as I love TPM, I just can't stand the link style they've chosen—largely because I can't see it!

I'm told you normals have no trouble seeing the red text in the post above, and thus understanding that as a link. But for the approximately 8 percent of males like me with some form of red-green color vision deficiency, not so much. (Not to mention the 0.5 percent of females, like my two nieces.) At a casual glance I don't distinguish the link color from the rest of the text at all. After the fact—after I randomly move my cursor all over the text attempting to get the rollover effect to reveal the link—I can maybe barely see the linked text as a little darker. Maybe.

It's endlessly frustrating. And not simply because I can't see the link. It's frustrating because there are so damn many of us colorblind people out there, and yet designers insist on plying their trade as if we don't exist!

Back in elementary school, as soon as my classmates learned that I was colorblind, some asshole would peel all the wrappers off the crayons so that I couldn't read the names of the colors. Because kids are assholes. But web designers have no such excuse. I have a legitimate disability, but one that is easily overcome through just a tiny bit of courtesy.

So my suggestion to the web designers at TPM and elsewhere is, if you want people like me to click on your links, put them in a goddamn color or style that we can actually see!