Please don't adjust your computer screen ...

Please, do not adjust your computer screen.

If you experience difficulties downloading images, it could well be that there is something wrong with your computer. Please allow the pond's helpful Indian advisor to cleanse it for you ...

And now, with the testimony done and dusted, but not the fuss, there's just time to report that a fierce argument erupted in the pond household ...

Was the immortal Rowe, here, right to have devised this excellent cartoon ...

... on the basis of this painting ... which the pond has seen, if you will allow the phrase, in the flesh ...

Or should he have used the El Greco which resides in the Metropolitan and is one of the pond's favourite paintings ...

Consider this in the cause of El Greco ... thanks be unto Greg Hunt, here ...

On December 3, 1599, he was appointed Grand Inquisitor of Spain. During his tenure as Grand Inquisitor, the Spanish Inquisition burned 240 heretics, plus 96 in effigy. 1,628 other individuals were found guilty and subjected to lesser penalties.

Now that's a role model and an inspiration.

Now consider Diego Velázquez's painting of Pope Innocent X, Greg Hunt it here.

What, however, do we make of Pope Innocent X, who can be Greg Hunted here ...

Olimpia Maidalchini, who had been married to his late brother, was believed to be Innocent X's mistress because of her influence over him in matters of promotion and politics. 
This state of affairs was alluded to in the Encyclopædia Britannica 9th edition (1880): 
"Throughout his reign the influence exercised over him by Maidalchini, his deceased brother's wife, was very great, and such as to give rise to gross scandal, for which, however, there appears to have been no adequate ground.... The avarice of his female counsellor gave to his reign a tone of oppression and sordid greed which probably it would not otherwise have shown, for personally he was not without noble and reforming impulses." 
The relationship between Olimpia and Innocent X, both before and during his papacy, is the main concern of the book "Mistress of the Vatican" by Eleanor Hermann, published in 2008.

You can contemplate his legacy at the wiki, including this bit of modern art, designed to outrage conservatives everywhere, Greg Hunt its purple ways here ...

Oh dear, perhaps the pond just shot itself in the foot. Or perhaps the beak ...

That's what happens when you get to arguing about the worst of the worst at the Vatican. So many contenders, so little time ...

And now the pond will resume normal service, thanks to this report here, with forced video ...

Leak away, my pretties, leak away ...

But that HFC, you that, that'd be a lot of cable and not much fibre, which Optus has given up maintaining, knowing it's got a sucker on the line, and there's not much available as an alternative ... just yesterday the pond looked once more outside its house at the battered, shattered concrete plugs supposed to protect the corroding copper underneath ...

Time for the immortal Pope to celebrate Malware in action yet again?