Hey jacques_chester, fair enough. It obviously wasn't only you who assumed that, because unfortunately the post was flagged. In retrospect it was obviously the S word that did me in, but it really didn't seem out of line compared to the dozens of very popular, slightly-NSFW titles I've seen on HN over the years.

Anyway, I've reposted it with a safer title in case you want to chime in on the debate. Hopefully it takes off again because I really would love to hear PG's take on the whole thing:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006328

Boy, I don't remember ever seeing a comment war escalate and de-escalate so quickly. Maybe there's hope for the Middle East after all. ;)