In which the pond catches up with the dog botherer ...

Eerie, prescient, and such a futtock question ... what about Orwell and Huxley, Shakespeare and Marlowe ...

Must speculative literature be reduced to a tea-leaf assessment of their Tarot card capacity to see into the future? Apparently, at least for the informed Australian ...

It took a supreme act of will, a triumph of the will, if you will, to ignore both the Donald and the lizard Oz splash to focus on the hard-headed dog botherer's urgent hard-headed cry for more hard heads ... 

Stand by for the dog botherer at perhaps his finest, his most urgent, most intensely philosophical, brimming with insights and understanding, cogent and forceful ...while still maintaining the superficial air of a profound wanker, a humble way of disguising his political genius ...

The pond didn't know quite where to start ... there was the politically correct existentially meaningless nature of it all, the quest for implementation and nuance - when a cricket bat would surely suffice - and the desire to lose some skin ... but never lose a cliché ...as opposed to scribbling in a way that suggested a loss of marbles ...

It culminated with the insight that a Malcolm Turnbull government would have worked best if it hadn't had Malcolm Turnbull as a figurehead ...

The pond always suspected that Barners was the way to go ... talk about a tough guy walking and talking ...

Nine wanted to copyright copy that begins with "Australian's" and culminates with "The Project's hosts dropped the name of the media contact they has spoken to ..." and "insisted they were apprised"?

Sullen? Okay, but it was a hard, firm sullen, in best Tamworth style ...

Back to the dog botherer's urgent cry for remedial courses in the media in relation to English, and the thing that stood out for the pond is the way that the dog botherer automatically assumes that the issue of climate science is sorted, and now reflexively. the issue might be ignored ... or downplayed ... or dismissed ... or put on the back bench ...

Every so often the dog botherer drops in "climate" as if there's not a care in the world ...

So where did the pond reach at this point in the dog botherer journey?

Well somewhere around here ... and "back to goals with action ..."

At last count, there were a zillion politicians and commentators who have talked of the need to back goals with actions. The worst are those who scribble cracker barrel banalities in newspaper columns and think it's some kind of action ...

Scrub that, the worse are the commentariat who actually get into the action, and only belatedly realise how rushing off to take action is another way to fuck things up...

Yes, back in the day, when the mod hair style dog botherer was close to the political action, his Action Jackson routines resulted in a fine old omelette ...

More here, but what a pity back in the day the dog botherer didn't actually become a park ranger ... he might have actually spotted a few fires, instead of helping start them ...

Back to the final gobbet ... and a chance to admire a final flourish, "pause the RET until technology and global action are advanced" on the matter of meaningless and irrelevant climate science because the climate is always changing ... and as a result meaningless gibberish of the "pause the RET until technology and global action are advanced" kind is surely the Action Jackson way forward ...

Oh sheesh, he went to the cracker barrel where he stores his one-liners and he pulled out the title of a Redgum song and album?

Did the dog botherer pause to wonder whether the CFMEU might have adopted that very slogan?

Of course he might have re-stocked his cracker barrel by heading off to the full to overflowing intertubes, and citing Bertolt Brecht in the matter of fighting and losing, not realising that the saying came from Richard Nixon quoting Albert Einstein who found it in Shakespeare ...

Well two can play at that game.

A kindly reader recently sent the pond a catch-all gif, on the assumption that it would come in handy at some point ... and indeed with the dog botherer infesting the pond, it has ...

Well it's action of a kind, and as meaningful an action as the dog botherer's column ...