Last time I checked, the Boston Globe qualified as "a major 'news' outlet" Major Lansing, Sir.

There is no shortage of folks around here who, if they aren't engaged in sockpuppetry, are regularly engaged in other internet dysfuctions such as trolling, flamebaiting, and kickin' the dog and slappin' the bitch sorts of mischief, particularly in the political threads.

It is also relatively easy to predict who these people are, by looking at who it is keeps initiating these sorts of threads over and over and over.

Click on the name 'Bobert' and it is pretty quick and easy to tell this is a person with a penchant for starting this sort of flamebait trollery thread, to trip the triggers of the resident Republicans.

And what good does that sort of divisive, hateful behavior serve in a folk music forum?

Cheap entertainment for some, at the expense of some others.