How far OT can they all get? Without any assistance I could spin a dozen threads in which I could engage with all comers for months to come on issues on which I have profound convictions and a lot of sympathy for proponents of whatever argument is on the agenda.

Only 24 hours ago I was giggling about Canada declaring war on the colony immediately south of it over softwood issues, and now there are a half dozen or more Canadian families grieving for their young finest and best.

A word of sympathy in passing for Mrzzy,and if I ever sound anti-american, it's not like that at all, and I'd be pleased to set out my convictions in a PM if this site afforded such a facility.

Is there a case for the Mudcat Café (already waaaaaaaaaaay OT when it hosts spats between sects which differonnchieit themselves over issues like size, shape and taaansion of their respactive Norn Iron dhroms) to establish a cyberzone (sandpit) in which people who subscribe to fundamental Mudcat values can tease out their issues (as they say in California) without giving offence to the broader and probably greatly mystified Mudcat community (cue concatenation of well-meant emoticons)?