Day 52 of MUC and day 5 of MOC and still the bigots rage ...

The pond couldn't believe it ... another day of bigots raging ...

The pond knew it would need metaphorical strength and could come up with only one answer as a way to get through it ... Taoism and perhaps a dose of straw dogs ...

Golly, that's a pretty large straw dog, almost Jeff Koons, but truth to tell, it's not of a sufficient size to match the enormous chip on the Bolter's shoulder ...

So much of the hating, so little time ... but it goes to show the sort of resentment and spleen and bile that a commercial TV failure  can generate when they contemplate someone doing it a tad better ...

Yes it's more of all the fucking news from the Hunsters, and oh indeed, indeed, they've never had it so good.
Bloody women, always nagging, and as for those Middle Easterners, why they're living on easy street. Just ask Gerard 'prattling Polonius' about the joy of being a Leb.

But the pond isn't really interested in a discussion, it's more like a time for an om and a straw dog ...

Ah that's better, historical Chinese examples of straw dogs being a tad rare.

The pond needed the metaphorical strength because when a bigot gets on a roll, the roll really gets bigoted ...

Now around this point, the pond began a count of the names by the Bolter as examples of the astonishing diversity of Australian television throughout its lengthy history ... and thought a ceramic Chinese dog might help with the meditation, apparently from the Han dynasty around 200BC to 200 AD..

Back to the Melbourne mastiff munching on his bigoted bone ...

The abundant history ...

By this time in the count, the Bolter had come up with one sitcom, Deborah Mailman, Alex Dimitriades, Susan Carland, and Ernie Dingo ... and then he throws in the likes of Stan Grant and Kamahl ...

No doubt there are going to be many more grand examples ...

Well if the Bolter had actually bothered to talk to the likes of Bob Maza, he might have appreciated that Bob was exactly the sort of uppity, difficult black that the Bolter would revile any other day of the week, hanging around with Gary Foley and reading dangerous books ...

BOB MAZA: You're a blackfella in this country you're political from the word go. But having a political awareness to be active... As a young married man I was given a book, uh, called 'Malcolm X Speaks'. And that changed my perspective about who I was, who blackfellas were, or... And what that Malcolm X said to me, you know, in that book made me realise, you know, "Yes, we're..." At that time I worked in a quarry smashing rocks. I thought that was my lot. I thought that's what blackfellas can expect in this life, you know... (the profile in full here)

Enough of that Bob, you'll only get the Bolter riled ... why just look at the commentariat in Murdoch la la land, it's so diverse that whites are gnashing and wailing in the valley of tears because they're being completely overlooked ... just as it's really hard to spot a white face on television these days ... and nary a blonde on the Nine network either ...

As for Kamahl, it brought memories back for the pond of that great Australian movie ...

Poor old Kamahl playing Aboriginal and worse poor old working actor Ed Devereaux doing black face ...

But the pond isn't interested in having a discussion with a sanctimonious, righteous bigot saying we should all be grateful and what a great country it is and all the rest of the yadda yadda bullshit an angry white man spouts while being handsomely paid to spout bigotry in News Corp publications and on Sky TV and radio ...

Let's just say there are a few more shades to the story than that sort of mealy mouthed piety and bigotry would allow ...

But wouldn't it have been nice for all this ratbag commentariat to have turned their firepower elsewhere. You know, just say congratulations for being a winner, and just get over it ... just give it a bloody rest, just like the wog and the black and the Islamic bashing go, just this once, so the pond might relax and take things easy ...

Instead, the pond had to reach for the Tao just to understand why there was all this empty, exhausting, day after day bellowing ...

Knew it would come in handy ...

How about another Han dynasty dog for a closer?