In which the Oz editorialist wins a few extreme dummy spit mugs while the business model goes on the doodah parade ...

Being innately perverse, and dedicated as it is to inflicting maximum pain and suffering on any stray reader who happens to stumble upon it, the pond was naturally beguiled by the top editorials in the lizard Oz this morning ...

This requires some sort of bold discipline, given the way the feckless are wildly excited about the long-foreshadowed Chinese conspiracy obvious ...

What to do, except goods emanating from the United States? Oh wait, perhaps Blogger needs to be exempt ...

Speaking of American-owned media, and the wicked Americans running roughshod over hapless local audiences, the pond was uplifted by the entrepreneurial enthusiasm of the reptiles this day ...

Perversely, the pond took this as a sign that the reptiles' business model was in deep doodah ...

Uh huh ... can the pond put it another way, or offer this as a prize to the reptiles?

Inspirational stuff, and it brought the pond to the Oz editorialist's other foray this day ...

... which perversely, the pond took as a sign that the reptiles' business model was in deep doodah ...

You see, what do you do when your business model is in trouble? Do you compete, do you get out and put the shoulder to the wheel, do you defy Comrade Bill and his class warfare, and show him how the entrepreneurial spirit is done?

Nope, you squeal to government, while denying being a rent-seeker , while seeking a spiffing deal on rents...

Talk about rich comedy ...quoting the $2.5 million dollar man ... and moaning about the ABC ...

Yep, it amounts to a tremendous business model ...

But wait, there's more ... you don't get to wear a medal and drink from the right sort of mug, if you don't know how to do a dummy spit properly ...

Oh dear another difficult, pesky black, sure to ruin the business model ...

What? Could the right to support the Donald on Chinese climate science conspiracies be in peril?

How about the right to berate the refugees, the Islamics, and best of all, the gay refugee Islamics who are getting into the minds of our children?

Mock the reptiles? 

Is nothing sacred?

What? Argue the case, present the facts, and be rewarded with the truth?

Put it another way, by a unanimous decision ...

Old Zen koan ... consider the ways to make a toothless tiger even more toothless ...

And with that, the pond comes to the end of the reptile parade this day ...

As fine a set of examples of a great sport as might be found ...

  

And now, speaking of epic dummy speakers, there's a rather savage Rowe out this day, with more excellent Rowe here ...

And it's worth remembering that the reptiles of Oz have been all the way with the Donald joke this past decade ...