Someone once said that there would be no peace in the Middle East as long as anyone with a hand grenade could exercise veto power. That's pretty much the case here. Anyone can get a thread removed by hurling a couple of bombs. It's guaranteed that someone else will retaliate and that's all she wrote. For some reason, the moderators are disinclined to simply delete the offending posts - or better yet boot the worst offenders. There's usually some rational and interesting commentary in any thread but it gets lost - off to the vaults. It's like in the days when the cops had the best porn because they confiscated it - OK, mediocre porn in this case but nonetheless. This one will probably get deleted as well so I suggest you stay up and monitor it.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken