In the pond's considered opinion, the tar pit calls for the reptiles ...

The pond just had to start with this nightmare vision by Rowe - more Rowe nightmares here - which is up there with the nightmare of the terrifying Kellyannewise clown that confronted Anderson Cooper and can be seen here ...

But enough of light Stephen King comedy, a different sort of beast stalks the onion muncher ...

Say what? That cannot stand, that is shockingly vexing. Gorgeous George no better than Comrade Bill!?

Even worse, the devious, deviant plotters are on the move, but can't escape the reptile stare and glare ... 

Oh cruel inhumanity, to reward a plotter and in noble John's seat of all things, and yet the newspapers are full of the way that the onion muncher has at last made Malware see sense, and fixed his energy policies for him ... and without a hint of gracious gratitude ...

What, it's an EXCLUSIVE that, as everyone predicted, the spineless jelly known as Malware couldn't stand the heat in the kitchen, would roll over and flip flop, and do what everyone had predicted?

Ah, that'd be the sort of EXCLUSIVE the reptiles love ...

A spokeswoman for Fifield said she could not give Guardian Australia the Fifield letter because it had been “an exclusive” for the Herald Sun. (here)

What a deeply corrupt, mendacious, rewarding of pets government it is ... and as usual Lloydie was on the case ...

But enough of  hard truths and all the preliminaries, because there's important news to celebrate. 

The reptiles have dug up yet another world famous climate science to head their opinion page this day ...

That take, gorgeous George, and as we did in Tamworth days, stick it up your woolly jumper ...

Now it's true that anyone who does a Greg Hunt on the still rolling Stone will be amazed to discover that he was born at the tail end of January 1929, and yet the reptiles have once again disinterred him, no doubt because he still retains his preeminent place as one of the world's great climate scientists, quite possibly equal to, or perhaps even better qualified than the onion muncher ...

As for his "considered opinion", up there with "hard truths", it was perhaps a tad unfortunate that the pond watched an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm last night, an uneven affair which featured Salman Rushdie extolling the virtues of fatwa sex (doing funny well for a writer), and an unctuous, glutinous, platitudinous, sticky, viscous restaurant front of house who spends all his time refusing to answer any question directly and rolling out clichés of the "in my considered opinion", "hard truth" kind ...

Happily, the rolling Stone is inclined to be short in his considered opinion ... which is just as well because science always works best when it's just an opinion delivered abruptly and with well-reasoned scientific and observational talk of scams, intellectual pygmies and quasi-religious phenomenons ... and you, you bloody young uppity punk, get off the rolling Stone's fucking lawn ...

A seminal event?

The pond must restrain itself. There will be absolutely no mention of spermatozoa here, no jokes about Onan withdrawing from Tamar and spilling his seed on the ground, and absolutely no mention of semen ...

Instead the pond is content to note and praise the rolling Stone for once more trundling out "Orwellian" so that the pond's swear jar could swell with seminal joy, aided and abetted by references to the "new paganism" ...

Truly, as Kudelka noted yesterday, the Greek myths remain alive in all their pagan richness ...

Well Malware gave up on that one, didn't he, at last understanding a rolling Stone gathers much moss, but the reptiles weren't done with their praise of the onion muncher, because the bouffant one was also out and about ...

Of course he isn't a problem!

He fixed Malware's energy policy for starters!

And his views on climate science are a joy to behold, almost Newtonian in their richness and seminal fluidity ...

Well it didn't take the bouffant one to get in and out in a few bold and brave strokes, and finish things off so that the pond could enjoy his seminal insights ...

Indeed, indeed, the onion muncher is a team player, and everything he does is for the team ... and the pond simply won't hear of wretches like gorgeous George or the asbestos lady sounding a tad disgruntled ...

There is a deeper purpose in all this, and thank the pagan heaven that the Pope was here to explain the real thinking behind the current reptile behaviour (with more papal insights here) ...