I, too, would gladly donate my meager number of posts to anyone who wants them if it will stop this. My experience as a mother of 3 and a grandmother of 7 tells me that the only way to impose a "time out" is to absolutely ignore the offensive behavior. Even well-founded responses are reinforcement.

Jailer's suggestions of not responding, not reading, etc. are good ones. If every post OZ makes is the last one in that thread, there would be no more of this. I'm not much of an organizer, but this idea of Jailer's shall become my own personal contribution toward a reversal of such pervasive acrimony.

Jon - check back in - if we're disciplined, this could stop.