Surely the answer to that reptile conundrum is clear enough ... it should be champers out of the shoe while stark naked, but preferably in Melbourne at the cup.
Decorum and western civilisation must be preserved, praise be to the onion muncher ...
But alas, it wasn't that Humpty Dumpty question that got the pond going, it was the strange appearance of Gerald F. Seib in the reptiles this day ...
Please allow the pond to examine the dates in the bylines...
Okay, that's clear enough, and so to the date in the actual source ...
Uh huh, that'd be October 3rd, with 1320 comments already under the bridge, versus a publication in the lizard Oz in the darkness of the night, heading to the witching hour, as October 5th kicked into gear.
Now the pond has spoken sharply and previously tried to explain the concept of the global village to the reptiles of Oz ...
Oh dear and the pond promised - thanks be unto Optus - never to sound like a futurist, but instead to embrace the copper and the HFC, and be content with its 2003 Nokia phone ...
But for the reptiles, it surely matters, and slow, meandering recycling of dullard commentary is these days, not just the last refuge of the scoundrel, it's a desperate feature of a failing, flailing business plan.
It's a way of filling in space and providing some days-old cat food for those addicted to killing trees ...
Even worse, it's banal analysis, swiftly outdated by the whirlpool of events.
If the pond wants some fresh news, it simply wires into the live streams of American cable television in all its hideousness and abundance of pills commercials...
Not this ...
Oh reptiles, reptiles, the news moved on long ago, there's many new lands been to the top of the faraway tree available at the click of a button ...
Are you so slow to the screen culture that you don't notice the post-apocalyptic zombies roaming the streets riven to their screens?
Oh wait, scrub that the vandals and the visigoths are pounding at the gates ...
Oh wait, scrub that the vandals and the visigoths are pounding at the gates ...
As for content, for the one in a hundred who might be political junkies, Seib just doesn't cut the mustard, not when there's the vice presidential debate, or an abundance of stories at numerous sources popping up 24/7, and just a click away ...
Given the current presidential election offers the same sort of fascination as conspiracy theories around the death of JFK, Seib on taxes is so yesterday.
Since Seib scribbled, wikileaks has disappointed the rabid right, though they live in hope that Assange might still help the Trumpster become the leader of western civilisation ... (just as the Brexit-loving onion-muncher might be hoping ...)
Since Seib scribbled, wikileaks has disappointed the rabid right, though they live in hope that Assange might still help the Trumpster become the leader of western civilisation ... (just as the Brexit-loving onion-muncher might be hoping ...)
Check out how the rest of the reheated, days old regurgitation of click bait stands up to the hot breath of freshness and relevance ...
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How tiresome to read that the Donald could do well, has done well, is capable of substantive points, as opposed to frenzied tweeting in the witching hours.
If Seib-style, you haven't worked out by now that the Donald is the Donald, you don't deserve to be counted as a pundit, and you certainly don't deserve to be recycled by the reptiles of Oz ...
The pond could get that sort of lightweight analysis from the gaggle of heads routinely assembled on Morning Joe ...
Reptiles, hearken, if you keep on doing this, how long before you're forced to run a headline, The Australian has lost its reason to exist, says Maurice Newman?
Indeed, indeed, why you would take your Seib feed from the United States is not immediately or readily apparent to the pond ...
How soon before we see prominent figures - perhaps after the chairman shuffles off - backing a merger between the NY Times, anxious to spread down under, and the reptiles of Oz ...? Or even worse, a merger of the Graudian and the Oz?
Well if SBS can hook up with Vice in a desperate attempt to fill the void cheaply with even more vacuity, and outrage ancient fogies in the process, anything is possible ...
Oh perhaps it's an exaggeration, but reptiles, things have moved along apace, and important new questions have been posed and answered in the time delay allowed by your desperate recycling ...
And so the pond, just like the reptiles, is already way out of date, but there's more fresh daily cartoons here ...
About time the Malaysian Customs Officials took some responsibility here.
ReplyDeleteYou've let Liberal Party staffers into the country. Don't go squarking when they are stripping off and behaving like fvckwits - that's what they have form in doing, and you really should have known that when you let them in!
"pulled off course by time bombs and content deficits ... "
ReplyDeleteLies, fearmongering and fables: that’s our democracy - George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/04/democracy-people-power-governments-policy
"Sometimes public attribution of blame will coincide with reality, which is why you don’t get famines in democracies..."
Has Moorice every wondered if there was a reason for him to exist?
ReplyDeleteI was going to say that every culture needs its "horrible examples" that need to be trotted out every year for the Passion Play ... but then, Moorice isn't much good even at that, is he.
DeleteYou said, DP, that: "Decorum and western civilisation must be preserved, praise be to the onion muncher ..."
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, we couldn't agree more. But until recently, we had no way of ensuring it. Ah, but now, now we have:
"Attaining graciousness through bed-making and bow ties " or, in short, Finishing School for men ! [ http://www.smh.com.au/national/attaining-graciousness-through-bedmaking-and-bow-ties-20091003-ghbs.html ]
Now, guys, no more excuses for that budgee-smuggler lifestyle; smarten up and acquire some male grace.