Disappointed with PrayTell

Been catching up on a few blogs, trying not to read EVERY post, of EVERY blog (didn't someone say something about reading Pascal's Pensees, likening it to beginning with the intention of only eating the best, reddest, ripest cherries in a bowl but finishing by consuming the entire thing?)

Anyway, there is a newish blog on the block, a group blog that encompasses liturgy, ecclesiology, etc.
And its com-boxes were a welcome antidote to the one-sided and often mean-spirited threads at National Catholic Reporter and What Does the Prayer Really Say?.
Though-provoking, fair, civil, above all moderate ... and then "The Editor" had to go and post THIS.

Why do we (and similar blogs) get more comments from conservatives and hardcore traditionalists than from moderates or progressives or liberals? Is all the energy and vitality today on the right? Are the “liberals dying or hiding,” as the NCReporter recently asked? Or are all the centrists and leftists too busy to post because they have jobs and are occupied in actual ministry? Why is there so much anger and lack of respect in comments from the right, compared to the comments from the other side?

Really?
That's your idea of the way to foster dialogue, and find common ground, and promote the health of the Body?
Did they even READ the comments on the editorial at NCR to which they linked?

And the snarky "question" about actually working in ministry was pretty low... not to mention that the implication, (in what Jon Stewart calls a "cavuto",) is demonstrably untrue.

The mathematics of this comment interested me:

I wonder if, in general, the more progressive considerations allow for more acceptance of variation. Issues of hymns vs. antiphons, enculturation, posture during Communion, to name just a few — I, for example, am OK with the conservatively inclined having their conservative ways, as long as I can also be accommodated. On the other hand, many conservative comments claim that there is only one right way: e.g., we should always use the antiphon of the day instead of a hymn.

I don't know, despite combox rhetoric indicating it, that someone on either the "conservative" or traditionalist side of these questions is more likely to think there is "only one right way to do things" -- for instance, there seem to be more parishes where Latin is forbidden by TPTB than where it is insisted upon, no?

And in practice, let's see -- if I want to attend a Mass with four hymns, within an hour's drive there are upwards of 175 parishes that could accomodate me.

A rock Mass? I don't know, but at least 3 dozen.

A Mass with the sung propers?

One. (And that's in another state.)

So much for the claim that "the more progressive considerations allow for more acceptance of variation."