Day 50 of MUC and day 3 of MOC, and the Bolter sings the Malware blues ... again ...

It was good of David Pope - more papal frolics here - to emphasise the many benefits of jobs and growth, growth and jobs, because the pond has become increasingly alarmed at the way that the greenie mentality is infesting the Turnbull government the same way the termites have been munching on the pond's woodwork ...

Of course this hasn't actually resulted in anything much except the slashing and burning of the CSIRO, a Tony Abbott approach to climate science, a useless third rate NBN, and motherhood statements of a meaningless kind, but it's enough to put the frighteners right up the Bolter's clacker ... and that is almost enough for the pond's enduring pleasure ...

Now, please, feel to faint, as a greenie approaches ...

Indeed, indeed, because one thing's for sure ...

Malware hasn't revealed his true Greens self before the election ...

But it does bring the pond to contemplating why the pond has come to enjoy the Bolter of late.

You see, the more he impotently jumps up and down on the sidelines, the more he foams and he froths, the more he fulminates, the more pleasure he gives the pond ...

It's all to do with pique and pride ...

Sob, remember the glory days?

Gone, gone forever ... unless ... unless ... is there still a chance, a faint hope? If Malware loses, or just scrapes back in, might the messiah be in a position to return. A new Lazarus, with a quadruple budgie smuggler?

How times change. Once the pond once couldn't stand reading the Bolter ...

Now as he impotently gnashes his teeth and wails ... and comes up with even more weird and fundamentalist advice, when channeling the likes of another delusionalist, Rowan Dean ... the pond can't get enough of the sublime results ...

Because a major policy back flip evoking confusion, chaos and a government completely out of control of policy and budget is the surest way to win an election.

Sublime pique and farcical nonsense ... in a nutshell, insolent stupidity of the first water ...

Surely this sort of proposal is a cunning way to pave the path for the return of the Lazarus?

And along with proposals comes the jeremiads at the heretics and the traitors, worthy of a Jeremiah in full Book of Lamentations mode ...

Oh you wicked, wicked people, divine and righteous punishment shall be your lot ...

Why even the ABC is worth watching and reporting if they reveal the moral corruption and the impending downfall ...

Yes, yes, because dammit, the only way any woman would get across the line is if the onion muncher talked up her sex appeal ...

And so on and on ...

As the Bolter folds in upon himself like a dying star, his fulminations have taken on a weird, irrelevant beauty ...

Oh okay, we thought it'd be fun to throw in a picture of a dying star as captured by Hubble, with more Hubble photos here ...