In which the pond deems the reptiles expensive and unnecessary ...

A word of explanation, and a confession, and an act of contrition ...

Some days, when it comes to contemplating the arm-breaker, the pond would rather head off to root canal therapy than indulge in his fatuous bigotry ...

The same goes for the fatuous nonsense of Sarrah Le Marquand ...

What sort of fuckwit proposes "it's expensive and unnecessary" so QED, "let's embrace the plebiscite," apparently with the rider, "no matter what nonsensical and inherently stupid and expensive and unnecessary form it takes, especially if it results in court challenges, much bitterness, dissension, culture wars and suffering and confusion, and with a bit of luck and much vile propaganda, a 'no' vote."

Well, with absolutely no respect at all, the pond never embraces the expensive and unnecessary, because, to state the bleeding obvious, (a) it's expensive, and (b) it's unnecessary ...

And by way of corollary, Malware and his fundamentalist cohorts have set themselves up for a world of pain over an issue that could easily have been sorted ...

If Le Marquand thinks this sort of logic is the way out of the mess that's been created by the fools that govern us, what does that say about the fools that scribble for a living, and expect to be paid for this sort of nonsense ...

Meanwhile, the reptiles of Oz this morning showed just why Malware is heading to that world of pain ...

PM locks in postal vote?

This assumes that the Senate will once again reject a compulsory plebiscite, and it will turn into a gigantic, and very expensive opinion poll, when everyone already knows what the opinion polls are saying ... and everyone knows what sort of shit will hit the fan ...

Already this morning in the lizard Oz, the reptiles were signalling with relish the start of the culture wars ...

Now the reptiles, as fundamentalist homophobic bigots devoted to the survival of a bizarre notion of Judeo-Christian western civilisation, have form in this area ...

So it's no wonder they're licking their lips at another round of the culture wars and a hearty dose of poofter bashing ... with federal government finance to help generate the hate ...

Ah the noisy minority known as Cory, warning about people stealing away the love of his hamster or his hound ...

It's funny how Cory went from this ...

... to being quoted by the reptiles as a significant thought leader, rather than as a fundamentalist homophobic bigot ...

Well it seems that there's now going to be a lot more of the hate speech before the year is out ... and that tale of how gay marriage is going to lead to the closure of of religious adoption agencies is a classic furphy of the red herring kind ...

But then we've been there before on this slippery slope ...

Never mind, how about a few old cartoons, with fresher Pope here, and fresher Rowe here ...

And with that out of the way, and since the pond began with the arm-breaker lambasting the firies, here's something for true devotees of Newtown, in relation to a local landmark. 

It started as a Facebook posting, about a Newtown building the pond loves ...

And so to the crunch question.

Would the pond rather have the wretched arm-breaker, lolling around on his handsome parliamentary pension, or the Newtown firies attend a fire? 

Why did the pond bother to ask? Go Newtown firies ...

Yep, not every service discriminates, but just about every Murdochian has no discrimination at all ...