Without commenting on the merits of either side -- and at the risk of alienating one faction or another -- I have to point out that this discussion is deteriorating, as did some other threads before it, and that the Board's purposes will be better served when it returns to where it ought to be.

Why are we sinking to the very incivilities that are being deplored in the earlier posts in this very thread? It isn't necessary to respond with escalating hostility to every probe or barb...