I thought I'd put an image or a video of a tumbleweed here, as a kind of wry comment on everyone's lack of enthusiasm for responding to a blog entry even vaguely connected to the word "politics", so I toddled off to YouTube and bunged in "Tumbleweed".

After browsing a few of the inevitable bandwidth wasters, this little beauty came rolling along:

Now, where on earth am I going to find a CD by "Earthpig & Fire"?