And so begins another week attending to the self-regarding reptiles basking on their hot rocks ...

The pond has only paid attention because David Rowe has paid attention (and more Rowe here), as the first monstrous defeat of the rugger bugger boofhead mentality can at last be sheeted home to the foolish top-hatted fop now in charge of the national psyche ...

Let's face it, the parrot once coached the local boofheads, and the pond is much more irritated by the fop's mishandling of the NBN covered on RN by Paddy Manning's Turnbull's faster, cheaper NBN, which conveniently has a link to Paul Budde's The NBN - more lies leading us from bad to worse, and though the pond linked to that piece on the weekend, we'll maintain the rage until the twelfth of never...

But Monday is also the time the pond heads off to the reptile cage to see what's upsetting the reptiles at the beginning of a week where the nation will be distracted by a bunch of nags running around with as much usefulness and purpose as an Australian team up against the makers of the best sav blancs in the world...

A couple of trends are apparent. Though there was much talk elsewhere earlier, it seems the reptiles are now also Jonesing for an early election:

Hudson has distinguished himself by ignoring the idle chatter about March, and dragging the date even further forward.

And the reptiles are currently in a heated campaign against ICACs and such like, because, well, because the reptiles would just love to see the likes of Eddie Obeid run free and run wild ...

Naturally the chief stenographer, besides pressing media duties, is on the case:

But they've also dragged out the moth-eaten Jeff Kennett of Queensland politics to argue forcefully why no-one should bother with the naked corruption that runs through Queensland politics like Joh used to run through brown paper bags ...

Who listens to Peter Beattie these days? Well when he sings a song that's music to the ears of the reptiles, how they love to hear him croon ...

But as always Monday is also the day when the dog botherer has his ABC outing, and the pond must stay loyal.

Now it's true that the terrible drawback of agreeing to the nomenclature for this daily blog is that the pond feels obliged to read the loons. It's a habit the pond had grown out of when it stopped buying tree-killing newspapers, realising that not only were trees dying for a useless cause, but because Murdochian propaganda sheets embodied the very worst of what the pond likes to call the dip-stick, dim-witted, thoroughly thick, sometimes completely loony end of journalism.

Never mind, it's called the pond for a reason and so we must press on to deal with the dog botherer, and what do you know? Yep, it's all about him, it's the me, me, me generation writ large ...

Now usually the pond would throw in Donkey around here ...

But the dog botherer's already picked himself as the choice topic for discussion, and so it's more like this:

Of course around this time, sensible people might wonder at the wisdom of rewarding the dog botherer and agreeing it's all about him.

He is after all impervious to any satirical thrusts, and his ego and self-regard are enormous, and he is blessed with the hide of an elephant ...

Satire means nothing ...

We also know where this sort of self-regard and attention leads. A kind of verbal selfie referentialism of the worst kind ...

But enough of 'The Me Me Me Generation' vs. 'The Me Decade' because sure enough, the spotlight continues to fall on the dog botherer, and the  fluff gathering and the anal gazing continues for the rest of the piece ...

There's really nothing much to say about this self-indulgence, except to note that it makes even more clear why the Nauru government saw fit to give the dog botherer a tour of its gulag, in a way allowed for no other media outlet ...

How astonishing to see someone lead with a sanctimonious, righteous "five decades as a law-abiding citizen" as some sort of defence, justification or excuse for fellow-travelling ... using that sort of character reference makes the pond suspect there might be something to the allegedly baseless smear.

Fortunately the pond has resolved not to break Godwin's Law for the entire week, and so will refrain from mentioning the Völkischer Beobachter style of reporting which favoured a paranoid incumbent government, and will instead settle for a repeat of the rest of that First Dog cartoon, and more First Dog here, along with a prayer that Media Watch will ignore the dog botherer for the rest of the year ... so that others might too ...