Alas and alack. Newton has to shut down the Portadown News message board, as the amount of attention it's been getting has been too great and the potential for legal action -- in Britain, message board owners are responsible for enery single posting, even if the board is unmoderated -- was too real. (The Portadown News, however, lives on -- as well it should.)

It's been a great board to hang out on, because it really did bring intelligent people from all political/religious stripes (ok, both religious stripes -- I don't think we ever had any Muslims/Buddhists/Shintoist/etc. comment) together to talk about what was going on. It was always heartening to read the board, and get confirmation that there are reasonable people out there.