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My word, that is a huge question :) and certainly a debatable one - people have been arguing over what constitutes 'art' and 'poetry' for generations, and I doubt they'll ...

Tassen, *please* try not to post pointless comments. This isn't an opinion poll, it's a debate - if you don't have any evidence or new points to add, don't comment ...

Yes, but then you'd have to sell up and we'd lose our independence, uniqueness and ultimately control over who and what junk was posted here... I am slightly wondering where ...

Aw, Jimmy, bless! :) I wondered why we hadn't seen any improvement...

We can leave it if you want: I don't really mind either way, to be honest. As for myself, you're absolutely right: I'm elitest in many ways, mostly to do ...

I'm like Brad: I eat small babies. Apart from that, I only hurt writers! Hope we'll see your stuff around. Bob

It really does depend how far countries are prepared to go. History has shown that countries can be effectively blockaded from recieving supplies - should the US, perhaps, decide that ...

Worgs, I understand your unwillingness to shove 'good' and 'bad' poetry into boxes, but I'd have to disagree - there's an increasingly disturbing trend toward postmodernism in poetry, the belief ...

I'm with Jack XD accursed bugs, squish 'em! Alas for my poor post count!

Nice to have feedback on feedback, as t'were; couple of thoughts: I've heard this defense used before: it's actually a very common one. People like to think that because it ...

Congress isn't really the point, though - the Patriot Act would have been much harder to get through (and certainly harder to rush through the way they did) had 9/11 ...

The Soviet Union was a much different matter, however: it didn't so much fall as retreat in upon itself. Even right at the death, there was too much to lose ...

Of course, don't forget that a lot of this depends what time you set it in - if it's *in* the future, you'll probably have a lot of those things ...

Ready, yes. Planned... not *exactly*, no...

"In the United States of America, during the 1980s there was an upsurge in the old belief of "Satanic ritual abuse". Hundreds of thousands Americans, including Protestant Christians, feared that ...