Hi, CAE - I don't know if I'm really back or not. What I've noticed here these past few days is that NCR/Civil Comments is pursuing the same creativity-stifling policies we're identifying in the USCCB. When they limit comments to a specific number of words, and allow people to stifle comments by those with whom they disagree, they're playing the same game by slightly different rules.

I have searched in vain this week for mokantz's lengthy comments that often ran on for several paragraphs, but always provided context and depth for our discussions. Perhaps there have been some, but I haven't seen any, and I'm not sure we haven't lost some good people because we've cut their vocal chords.

In The Jungle Book, Kipling sketched a wonderful minor character called Chuchundra the Muskrat, who was always on the verge of doing something brave, but never got around to it, although he constantly gave other people advice. That sounds to me like what the USCCB has become. Et tu, NCR?