I'm not a huge participant around here, but I think I speak for a lot of us
when I say - give it a damn rest already.

If you like arguing politics, there are many good newsgroups to do it in. I
know artistic types tend to be opinionated, and can't resist a little
politicalizing amongst others of similar creative interest, but when we have
OT forks back to the root from threads that were off topic to begin with,
things are more than a little out of hand.

Sorry if I'm out of place, being an irregular here and all - just my 2c.