Just one more thought here, Alan, since the original thread was locked.  By conservative estimates we have at least 100 years of natural gas in shale reserves in the USA.  If we unlock these and use nat gas for vehicles and for power generation, we can buy ourselves the time needed to really develop new technologies for energy -- fuel cells, nuclear fusion reactors, much more efficient solar cells, etc.  These technologies are not quite ready for prime time yet, but I have no doubt they will be in the future.  Nat gas is best thought of as a "transition fuel."  It is much cleaner than diesel for powering trucks and it's even cleaner burning than gasoline.  And, of course, in power plants it's much cleaner than coal, though clean coal technologies are helping reduce pollution from coal-fired plants.

You're asking us to boot the offenders for a month. That means we have to read it and be a referee. That's not something any of the moderators care to do. I'm more than happy to link if someone wants to set up a free message board at someplace like http://www.proboards.com/ . 

http://www.bobcatsattackingbobcatsinsiberia.com is a bit long...but available for you to register Alan.

You must already be doing that or you wouldn't have locked down Monroe's thread.  Come on Ted, take off your parent hat at let the kids play in the street.

Terrible and never are pretty strong words.  As a nation we're quickly losing the ability to have intelligent and civil discourse on a wide variety of topics.  No one is asking that we turn this into  a political board.  It would be nice though that if someone does bring something up that it's not censored or locked.  Lord knows that we stray from sports quite a bit as it is.

I agree. That's why I said "terrible," bolded, italicized, and underlined it.

And we never had a great capacity to have intelligent and civil discourse. It's just more noticeable now.