What's more depressing...?

...your government is a complete failure because the man in charge is an incurious simpleton?

OR

...your government falls despite the fact the most qualified man in the country has (had?) the top job?

I would swap places with the people in category A today. Count yourselves among the lucky ones.

For more of life's great imponderables, check out The Matthew Online, the online newspaper written by my students at JCU. The first batch of stories for the semester is now online. Tell us what you think.