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Wow, and suddenly I realized how much it must suck to be an editor...

What's the expression? The politics are so bad because the stakes are so low?

A bikeshed (from a discussion on the FreeBSD mailing list -- see http://www.bikeshed.com/).

YES - this is my favorite new dev meme. So incredibly true it's painful.

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small" --Henry Kissinger