They say that Nero fiddled (in the musical sense) while Rome burned.  Maybe.  Maybe not.  If so, it was not with a fiddle as we know the instrument.  Violins did not come into play (ahem) for another fifteen centuries.  But he could have been using a lyre.  Those had been in use for several thousand years already.  Or maybe Nero was fiddling in a different sense of the word.  As we know, leaders do that under stress.

In this day and age, twiddling is more apt to be the time-waster, not fiddling.   Our thumbs, especially our leaders’ thumbs are busy, busy, busy.  In fact all of us have busy thumbs these days.  Facebook has never been more full of itself and I’m sure twitter is much the same.  Perhaps fiddling and twiddling under pressure is what we all do best.

Most of us, though, expect more of our leaders.  But have you considered that perhaps we should be thankful that they are twiddling?  Or fiddling?  Either way, those thumbs are busy.  Otherwise, no telling just where those thumbs would be.  Or can thumbs be used for twiddling, fiddling, and shoving out of sight all at the same time?  A whole new meaning, perhaps, for being all thumbs?