Don't respond, Jim. Give the mods the chance to sort this out.

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Sorry, folks. Too late. You didn't seem to understand my request to get back on the subject. Yes, it's true that one side might be 60% right and the other 40%, but I see no good in trying to sort the thing out. There's just too much animosity floating around here, and none of the moderators want to bother wasting their time reading it. I know I must be right on this, because I'm getting flak from both liberals and conservatives who want me to declare one side right and the other wrong. As I see it, both sides are wrong if they engage in insults and combat in Mudcat threads.
As I often told my children, I don't care who's right and who's wrong - I just want the fighting to stop.
Thread closed. Feel free to start a new thread on the subject, but don't open old wounds. Talk about the frickin' subject.
To my mind, closing a thread is not a punitive action. It's just to give everybody a little breathing room before they settle down and get back to the discussion.
-Joe Offer-