Saturday evening Nodrog opened a new topic in which he shared a link to an opinion piece in The Guardian about the leadership in the National Parks system over the last couple years. His premise was that he wasn't intending to be political, but... 'hey y'all, look at this!' I responded late Saturday night that the piece he linked to was extremely political and very partisan and if he really wanted to discuss the National Parks and their management that he should maybe choose a more balanced article as a jumping off point. Today I see that he has not only sanitized the title of that topic and removed his opening post, but also has gone back and removed most of the content of his build thread as well as a large number of his responses to others over the last couple years.
Nodrog, it appears my choice of words has made you want to leave and I am deeply sorry about that. That was certainly not my intent. From what I have seen you have been a valuable contributor to this forum and I hope that continues and the deleted posts can be restored. To be clear regarding yesterday's thread, your post specifically was not political but the Guardian piece you linked to was extraordinarily so. Obviously I ought not attempt to speak for everyone here but the sense I have gotten in this forum is that as a whole we all get plenty of politics everywhere else and this has appeared to be a welcome respite from it.
Here is what's left of Nodrog' post from Saturday. I have left my response intact. I will lay my carcass upon the Town Square and await any drubbing the membership chooses to give me. Here I stand, I can do no other...
http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72366