I sent this to the NewtonTalk list, hoping to fork off the political discussions from the Newton-oriented subject matter:

I hope everyone is sending out Private notes to anyone who is posting about off-topic threads asking them not to post *OR RESPOND* to off topic threads.

If you wish to discuss this, please follow this link to a message board which requires no sign-up to post:

http://www.quicktopic.com/20/H/NPZKqDGRuvkv

This seemed like a great way of diffusing the thread, and I think it's worked, so far.

Ross : Link : Discussion Board