Mousethief said:

..."Of course one problem with threads like these, as Marty points out, is that they tend to attract raging anti-Jewish hatemongers, much as shit attracts flies."

Anti-Jewish, anti-Arab, anti-Irish Catholic, anti-Irish Protestant, anti-American etc.etc. I simply feel this forum can be interesting and imformative (with B.S. AND music) without giving bored Idealogues a place to rant on and on. Eventually it will poison the music threads completely. I suspect many people will NOT want to discuss folksongs with those they've come to believe have extremist views. Mild political differences sure; but NOT the kind of polarization that these kinds of threads expose.

Don't bother jumping on me, I know it's a losing argument.

marty