>>Aron Ralston's attempt to litigate free speech is stupid

Considering that Chris just deleted a post from someone simply because that person made a public criticism of this forum, I find your tag line more than a little ironic. <img src="images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

If by "finished discussing this", you mean "we've said all we want to say and we don't care to listen to anyone who disagrees with us", then it appears you are correct. But it doesn't fit into my definition of "free speech".

Of course, getting a you-know-what from you-know-who didn't fit into Bill Clinton's definition of "sex", either. <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />