Haul him through the courts? Would not spitting on him to put out a fire do instead?

One of the things about the reptiles is the way they have the mindless tenacity of a dog with something clamped in its jaw.

A child's precious doll, a table leg, a smelly shoe, no matter, just grab it and chew away ...

Or perhaps they're more like a ruminating cow contemplating life while chewing the cud, except that might amount to defaming bovinae. A reptile is a reptile is a reptile, on a hot rock ...

The pond knows what causes it ... the kool aid absorbed each day in the hive mind ...

But while some see it as a marvellous spectacle, the pond is occasionally wearied by the murmuration of the starlings ... not least because of the way that the starlings reliably shat all over substantial areas of Tamworth ...

Apparently things have reached a nadir at the reptile Oz, because, in their frantic attempts to find another hack to maintain the Leakian crusade,  this day they wheeled out the commercial editor.

Now the pond has no idea of what a "commercial editor" does in a paper which routinely loses money each year ... surely the rag needs an "uncommercial editor" ...

When it comes to the bigger issues of life, the evidence suggests that as a sophisticated scribbler, Steve Waterson is something of a fuckwit.

What a relief to be able to use that term of abuse knowing that Waterson, heroic libertarian that he is, wouldn't take a fence, or even a gate ...

In fact, the cheeky devil is inclined to abuse and fancy trolling, and in such a clever way too, down there with the pond ...

Scribblers on the toilet door of social media? This from a worker in a criminal organisation?

Oh it's rich, though also richly pathetic, but at least we know now that a thousand monkeys pounding away on their typewriters for ten years can produce a Waterson column, full of the richness of insight and the coarsening of discourse that the Murdochians are famous for ...

What a prime doofus and fuckwit he is, and please allow the pond to make two completely irrelevant points ... the pond has been amongst the workers in the beehive and seen the marital discord and the alcoholism and the anti-social behaviour and the bullying, but you can bet your bottom dollar you won't see a Bill Leak cartoon about that sort of stuff, not when he can bash blacks and gays standing outside the building infested by the likes of the self-satisfied, complacent, totally up himself and oblivious Waterson...

Oh and isn't it quaint that a dipstick like like Waterson would think some sort of personal character reference by him will erase from memory what is perfectly obvious in Leak's cartoons ...

The pond has routinely heard this sort of nonsense.

Some of my best friends are black/gay/ethnic, and there isn't a racist bone in his body, and the jokes about boongs/poofters/wogs are just a healthy expression of the awful dysfunctionality in their wretched lives ... (unlike the wonderful, self-congratulatory lives led by the reptiles) ... 

There's something ironic when a doofus attempts logic and reasoning. 

So we gave to destroy bad ideas by producing better ideas and vigorous debate? 

So Bill Leak is infested with bad ideas, but will come around when confronted with better ideas and vigorous debate?

In what alternative universe does Waterson live? Oh dear, the pond forgot. The comfortable world of the uncommercial editor.

As for the uncommercial editor's martyrdom complex, and the fanciful imagining of the legal persecution to follow, has ever a typing monkey been more up himself?

Well here's the pond's theory. 

Chris Mitchell dragged the reptiles of Oz way off on to their own planet, revolving with a right wing tilt in some other universe, and in the process, irretrievably coarsened public discourse and debate. Think of it as the "Order of Lenin" factor ...

So when social media came along, a grateful citizenry seized the chance to say what they think about the racists and bigots accustomed to getting their own way and trashing whomever they like from the shelter and the comfort of their kool-aid swilling bunker ...

The final coarse gravel in this process is the sort of pathetic outing produced by Waterson, who should get back to being the uncommercial editor and not bother himself with deeper matters requiring some gravitas and sensitivity ...

Bill Leak is a child of the reptiles, in much the same way that Donald Trump is the illegitimate child of Fox News, Roger Aisles and the GOP, Megyn Kelly's recent obsession with sex notwithstanding ... and a coarsening of the culture is the unholy result ...

On the other hand, that gesture suits the toilet door and is about all that needs to be said to Waterson.

Now if only Waterson could join the onion muncher and head back ... and more delicious Moir here who reliably manages to do cartoons without benefit of racism, sexism and homophobia...