In which the pond suffers with the long-suffering Savva ...

Many confronting images of the Vietnam war have seared into the pond's brain over the years ...

Now thanks to Amanda Vanstone, the pond has seen perhaps the most savage word picture of them all ...

So much suffering, so almost unendurably heroic. 

Damn you, smug, well-fed, inconsiderate anti-war demonstrators, damn you to hell for the hell, the suffering, the humiliation you made hapless, stoic Mandy endure ...

Surely there's some sort of medal that can be sent to her by registered post?

Well the pond wouldn't have come across that, as it never reads Fairfax, but for a mention in Crikey, which it also rarely reads, but it felt right to dig back into the Fairfaxian archive to celebrate The 'look at me' narcissistic politics of the left ...

Yes, even the header is profoundly silly - Mandy is nothing if not a deeply rich narcissist - but now the pond must do a segue to resume its look at reptiles on patrol ... with the news a tad disturbing ...

Oops, the first hint of the recession the pond is expecting.

Bizarrely the Daily Terrorists keep on importuning the world for help for a measly, pathetic, sum which won't provide much silver lining against an economic storm, or even a fiscal cliff ...

Yes, that offer of eighty bucks to bus into 'leet Surry Hills HQ to help understand why the usual crap is on the nose is another marvel of the ages ... and the wording is so poignant. 

For a humble eighty bucks, you'll be helping them improve your experience, which is the most elaborate way yet invented of saying you'll be helping their sinking ship somehow stay afloat ...

Dear sweet Terrorists, there's simply no way you can improve the experience of a bruising encounter with the Bolter or dragging Louise Roberts out of Manly to help us understand the world ... it's always going to end in tears, with or without 80 smackeroos as the consolation prize.

Meanwhile, over at that other reptile bunker, which coincidentally also emanates from a 'leet inner city Surry Hills HQ, the top reptiles are doing their very best to do a down under version of Pravda, and to hell with eighty bucks ...

The fine art of hagiography isn't dead, but the pond was particularly moved by Savva.

Given mad Mel's recent awards feast for yet more cinematic hell, will someone produce an award for the suffering of Savva? 

Each week, she goes to almost unendurable lengths to polish the silverware and make it gleam and shine ...

And so, without further ado or splash, it's on with the polishing, and the suffering, and the indignity of it all ...

Now it takes exceptional skill to discover, in all the recent follies, a fortuitous decision, but that's the business of any diligent apple polisher, especially after talk of impeccable bad timing that prompted much derision and laughter, and even a Pope cartoon ...

Well there's more Pope here, wherein there are many mugs with a dino by the tail, but now the long-suffering Savva has to get on to the matter of the worms in the apple, and the business of smiting and smoting them mightily ...

Emphatically rejects a carbon tax and always has ...

Now the pond understands that in a post-Trump, post-truth world, the notion of what was said, the very idea of history and memory is meaningless ...

So when the suffering Savva parrots Malware's memory lapse that he'd never ever supported a carbon tax, why would anyone argue?

Oh okay, Fairfax has its uses here, and truth to tell, that one isn't as rich as peddling the notion that Adani will be good for climate change, presumably on the same basis as that we must go to war to save the peace, and it became necessary to destroy the town to save it ...

No wonder Savva suffers so much as she struggles to become Kellyanne Conway ...

Meanwhile, on an alternative planet, the one to which anyone with actual managerial skills has fled, they're watching to see when the combined efforts of Brexit and the Donald produces a world recession ... and then we'll see how it goes for the suffering of Savva, doing her best to boost Malware and his fully cognisant understanding...while mocking ScoMo's vibe reigning supreme ...

Then we'll be in Pope cartoon territory, and a wasteland of circling excuses (and as noted, there's more infallible papery here ...)