This seems as good a time as any to remind folks of Godwin's Law, which represents one of my earliest net.meme.hacks: ----- Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. ---- --Mike P.S. You may also be interested in the corollaries, which shed some useful light on the dynamics of online discussions: Gordon's Restatement of Newman's Corollary to Godwin's Law: Libertarianism (pro, con, and internal faction fights) is *the* primordial netnews discussion topic. Anytime the debate shifts somewhere else, it must eventually return to this fuel source. Morgan's Corollary to Godwin's Law: As soon as such a comparison occurs, someone will start a Nazi-discussion spinoff thread on alt.censorship. Sircar's Corollary: If the USENET discussion touches on homosexuality or Heinlein, Nazis or Hitler are mentioned within three days.