>my impression of Parliament has
>always been that at least half of what occurs there is regarded as
>some sort of weird national performance art, sort of Cirque du
>Soleil with Robert's Rules of Order. :)

You just gave me a mental image of some of the current crop of inmates doing twirls and poses suspended high above the back benches, wearing skintight glittery spandex. Fortunately I managed to link to a YouTube page of funny cat movies before I lost 2d6 SAN.

(Your description's pretty much spot-on, though...)

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