To website designers everywhere

I don't like complaining--at least, not out loud--but why do some website designers not think about the color combinations they put together? When you use red and green close together, it causes problems for some of us. Right now, I'm especially looking at you, ESPN.com designer! Using red and green for wrong and right on their "expert" picks? Red-green colorblindness is the most common form of colorblindness--with about 1 in 10 men "suffering" from this "disability", according to WebMD.

For those that may not have guessed, I am in this group. I can usually tell red from green if they are by themselves (or so it seems to me) but if you start putting the two colors together, I might not notice. My grandfather (on my mother's side, of course) was also colorblind, as is at least one of my cousins--and two out of 6 is slightly beating the odds.

So, if I ever have a daughter, she will be at least a carrier of the defective gene, and any sons she has would have a 50% chance of being colorblind as well--unless her mother is also a carrier (or colorblind).

Part of the reason colorblindness is fairly common is because people who are completely colorblind have the advantage of being able to see through camouflage. I'm only red-green colorblind, so I don't get this advantage.

So if I start disagreeing with you on the colors of things, you can probably assume I'm wrong.

I'll close with a random fact: My two favorite colors? Red and green.