Fiddling while Rome burns

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Will Rogers

While it's certainly not likely that Nero fiddled while Rome burned (no fiddles back then, was it a lute?), it's a wonderful allegory for the real world events in Canberra this week, and also shows that perhaps the other meanings of fiddling are more relevant to this political life (fidget, fool, interfere, dabble, doodle, mess, monkey, play, potter, puddle, putter, tamper, touch, toy, trifle, twiddle, ...)

All those chooks seem to be running about dealing with Earth shattering events such as:

• the "Marriage Question" (please Tony, just have a vote in parliament like you were elected to do - earn your keep!) and... 
• the backgrounds of various elected officials (Barnaby - step aside and do your paperwork, it's what the rest of us have to do).

The morass of these moribund monsters, brought about by the bubble-like nature of the professional pollie, means that we aren't being effectively governed at the moment.  Perhaps we could look to Belgium for solutions.  Kick em out and let the public servants get back to the sanity of running our country?

Congrats to the parliament for the wastage and inefficiency - that's gonna help lift us up.  And we're not just complaining amongst ourselves up here in the hills...here is the research...

Mmmm...where is that trendline heading?

On a more positive note, the garden is waking up!  Pictures to follow...