Documented facts from IranContra are now being downplayed as 'speculation', eh?

[Jack Sprat]

4. DU General Discussion

is dominated by hardcore fuss-budgets who only want to talk about the same general topics that they deem as current politics. Therefore, a whole range of interesting discussion is confined to the backwoods forums under "Offbeat" and under that subgroup "Creative Speculation".

I know why so many people in the Lounge purposely avoid GD like the plague. There are some of the most close-minded people on that forum that you could ever find. For the most part, they simply obsess over one thing, that being the political headlines of the day.

This is not to say that there aren't plenty of people dying to talk about subjects like the Kennedy Assassination, Iran Contra, or various other topics of great interest. But they are restrained by the hosts and their moderators, along with their narrow-minded clients who support them.