On the other hand, we can always find another unagile Josh ...

Actually Malware's version of broadband is an embarrassment to Australia, but moving right along, the pond understands and agrees that it daily challenges and stretches the capacity of any stray reader who happens to land on the site ...

Who else would bother, on a meditative Sunday, to provide a link to Angry Sydney Anglicans arguing for the right to go on poofer bashing and demeaning teh gays?

Though it's naturally dressed up in high sounding, rhetorical garb as Preserve freedoms in marriage debate, complete with that first refuge of the vile patriotic bigot, a bit of flag-waving ...

Oh the jingoism, the devious wretched mixing of god and country ... but since we're on about preserving freedoms, how does that sit with Anglican communion to restrict US Church over gay marriage ...?

Well, you see Virginia, there's freedom and then there's Anglican freedom, and there's Christ banging on about hypocrisy and then there's Anglican hypocrisy ...

But enough of the Angry Anglicans and their fear and loathing, because today the pond has a really long shaggy dog story which will test the strength and endurance of any reader.

It comes as a result of what might be called the Mosfilm aspect of the reptile business plan, which is to turn the lizard Oz into the Pravda of the federal government ...

This routinely leads to blather fests from bears of little brain ...

Now there is an agile punch line to this endless bit of shaggy dog carry on, but it takes a long time to get to the point of the joke ...

The pond suggests packing water and a cheese and cucumber sandwich for the journey ... and let us begin in the foothills ...

Well there you go, plenty of graphs, like an ABC finance report, and soporific soothing words, and it's mines, mines, mines for the world, the agile quarry in action ... and, sob, there's plenty more where that came from ...

The pond must pause at this point for a breather and note that Josh is reckoned to be a coming force in the Liberal party ... and they wonder why some might think that the Liberal party, and therefore the country living under its rule, is well on the way to being fucked ...

But the pond promised a punch line to this story of mines, mines, mines to the world, and the agile quarry and sssh, not too much about coal please, let's keep it on iron ore puhlease, and steel, steel, steel for the world because the steel mills at Newcastle and the 'Gong are positively surging ...

On to the punch line, and lordy, lordy is it an agile one ...

There you go, there it is and as promised, what a tremendously agile one it is ...

"But on the other hand, we can always find another search engine."

Now Josh didn't have to include this throwaway line. He could have just thrown it away, left it out, moved on with the rest of the mines, mines, mines for the world blather fest ...

But he couldn't resist, he left it in, and there it sits, like an unagile turd ... a classic example of a walking, talking, furiously scribbling fuckwit delivering a thoroughly tone deaf joke ... because he doesn't have the first clue, never did and never will ...

It was back in 2014 that the punters noted Google worth more than Exxon. Apple next?, and you can, if you like google, more about Google and its market status in more recent times ...

But can the pond just note that you can't always find another search engine - just ask Yahoo, or perhaps, if being comical, just ask Jeeves ...

You can't for that matter, always find another Facebook or another Twitter or another YouTube, though Chairman Rupert probably wishes he'd found another and decidedly better MySpace ... just as the taxi industry might have wished it found an Uber and the newspaper game wish they'd never discovered the intertubes at all ...

Why did Josh feel the need to deliver that decidedly unagile throwaway joke at the end of his soporific tale of how we should trust Twiggy and Gina? (Sssh, no mention of Clive please).

The pond suspects it's because when it comes to agile and pivot and transform and all the other Malware-isms doing the rounds, he wanted to demonstrate that he didn't have a fucking clue ...

Never mind, for the record, here's the rest of Josh's piece ...

Or as another astute man once said ...

President "Bobby": Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives? 
[Long pause] 
Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden. 
President "Bobby": In the garden. 
Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again. 
President "Bobby": Spring and summer. 
Chance the Gardener: Yes. 
President "Bobby": Then fall and winter. 
Chance the Gardener: Yes. 
Benjamin Rand: I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we're upset by the seasons of our economy. 
Chance the Gardener: Yes! There will be growth in the spring! 
Benjamin Rand: Hmm!
Chance the Gardener: Hmm! 
President "Bobby": Hm. Well, Mr. Gardner and you too Josh, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time.

Meanwhile, as the uproar over the disgraceful gulags and their shameless conduct continues this meditative weekend, this Pope has been dug out and given a new airing, and remember there's always a Papal archive of the arch-papist's work here ...

And so back to the agile future, as the pond goes hunting for another search engine ...

Oh the fuckers, the unagile fuckers, fuck 'em, in an agile way, of course ...