I’ve read MNPublius for years.  I’ve given the principals, Zack and Matt and Sean, a bit of crap over the years (my “giggly fratboys” references), partly as a tongue-in-cheek riff on their ages (they were all in middle school high school college three years ago), partly because they did some frat-boy-y things (squatting on Kennedy Vs. The Machine’s old Blogspot domain when it opened – to which they at least, to their credit, copped).  But despite their occasional propensity to be breathless fanboys of any DFLer anywhere (hey, it’s their right), they are one of the regions more credible leftyblogs.

They could have just scuppered all that:

Starting right now, anyone has the ability to launch an online conversation about anything!  We, of course, won’t allow spam or lies, but liberal, conservative, mundane, or surreal, it may find a home on MNpublius Diaries.  Just as we’ve refused to censor comments, we will not censor content on the basis of our own opinions, but instead embrace a truly open forum for a discussion of Minnesota politics.  Now, we also may promote some especially intelligent diaries to the frontpage, but that will be a thoroughly subjective decision (hey, we’re opening up the diary page, but we still reign on the frontpage!).

Er…best of luck, guys!

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