Sorry to hear about the flashbacks. Having written a couple dreadful ORMs in my day, I feel an odd kind of guilt right now. :) I know it's a new post, but it's

Sorry to hear about the flashbacks. Having written a couple dreadful ORMs in my day, I feel an odd kind of guilt right now. :) I know it's a new post, but it's funny to see what a large share of this discussion is about your ORM comment. You've touched a nerve, I think! I also wonder if there should be a corollary of Godwin's law -- "as an online discussion about relational databases grows longer, the probability of diverging into a discussion about ORMs approaches 1." :)