I am waiting for his response to my last post and may change the header to admit some degree of erring in the latitude provided. This thread was designed to remove such kind of posts from the "No politics" thread to make the latter one more friendly, the problem is that it concentrated too much poison in a single thread and that brings about tempers and confrontations almost as bad as between the Israeli and the Palestinians.
In lieu of banning him (if he decides to stay) how about this as a "compromise": Address your own "ground swell clamoring" (which you obviously appear to have), and simply advise them to place Sly on ignore, en masse. No engagement, no incitement, end of problem. ============================================================== Sounds good to me.