Jon:

Thoughtful posts are infinitely preferable to kneejerk ones no matter WHAT the topic. Let me point out that there have been far more threads started on the subject of spirituals in the last ten days than there have been on the subject of war. And if you read the threads about the WTC event you will find that they range in persuasion from abhorring the thought of war, to trying to think of other solutions than war, to tring to understand the dynamics that have led us to its edge and where those dynamics might lead. Let me add that the notion of war was not brought up at all in this forum until a foreign community chose to kill a large number of citizens of this and other countries. It's not like we have obsessive warmongers among us!

Count the music versus non-music threads in any one-week period and you will probably find -- at least I did the last time I did this -- that music reigns by about 60-40.

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