I had hoped to remain above the fray but the level and quality of discourse on this thread demand that I put personal considerations aside and agree to offer my services as the town intellectual and arbiter of propriety and good taste.
It's so easy for a loosely-knit amorphous collection of individuals to drift into seamy and unsavory behavior patterns. Mental capacity and erudition such as mine will prove to be crucial to the refined development of a respectable community.
As a first step I require that each of you PM me with your level of academic accomplishment, your professional fraternal affiliations and a short statement of what you hope to add to the intellectual dignity of this experiment.
Hmmm! Sounds as though Buck is jockeying for chief BS officer or career politician.