At first I thought you used "political" to mean opinionated commentary about software development, platforms, and frameworks. And I thought, "bring it on!" And then I realized you meant political. Oh. That.
Weird. That never stops every other topic.
the difference is that there is a government shutdown involved, which is 100% pure politics, as opposed to topics like the NSA, which aren't necessarily politics, at least not obviously.
I agree. However, I'd like to see a postmortem of the events and infrastructure in a few months, when everything's hopefully calmed down.