In which the pond embarks on an epic trek with the reptiles and the onion muncher ...

Of course the reptiles were going to get wildly excited ... and of course the pond had to fall blindly in line and pay attention to the reptiles paying attention to the onion muncher.

There's nothing like coal-loving climate denialism to stir the reptiles' cold clammy blood and whip them into hysterical devotion. 

Imagine the entire planet turned into a reptile hot rock ... oh bliss, oh poop, and so it wasn't just the tree killer edition, it was the digital edition that featured the onion muncher ... oh and they also recycled the thoughts of the Italian as they appeared on the ABC ...

There are always distractions and temptations for the pond.

The pond could spend its time with the Q and A wrap, or with brave, relentless Rebecca Urban, as the reptiles do their very best to protect the religious freedoms of Scientologists, fundamentalist Islamics, the Exclusive Brethren, young earth and creationist Xians, and so many others with invisible friends ... go 'Becca, keep up the good work.

And what a thoughtful, helpful contribution from John 'rocket science' Barilaro. As the NSW government tears up Sydney, the Terror has embarked on a major bout of infantilism, a herculean celebration of the wanton destruction in a style that makes "hagiographic" a word to evoke warts and all neo-realism ...

But none of this should distract from the major effort this day ... 

It fell to poor old Simon Benson to be the parrot, because the reptiles have a rule of two. 

There shall be the actual speech, and then someone will have to summarise the speech. Two shall be the number of the stories, and no story shall actually contest the content or provide an alternative view to the speech that shall be second.

Instead the mind-numbing tosh of a Catholic fundamentalist raging at new theologies - because he's a fuckwitted dunce and a luddite when it comes to actual science - shall be trotted out in a supine Benson-lite way, without even a hint of light from a bunsen burner ...

Is there anything more irritating or preposterous than a homophobic Catholic fundamentalist leading with talk of the Inquisition?

The man is full of tosh, "plant food" if you will, perhaps helpful for those in search of regularity, but Malware, having mislaid his spine, will most likely fall for the bait ... and the plan for a hot rock reptile friendly planet will have taken another step forward.

Even so, already a tad exhausted, the pond felt the need to set up base camp with Rowe, and more Rowe here ...

Ah that's better, and so to the rest of the offal, this time with it coming direct from the horse's mouth, because the rule of two must be obeyed ... and this is the second kidney ...

Now at this point the pond should warn people that looking up "Power to the people" will lead them astray, and on to the bandana-wearer ...

It was a cruel prank, an unnerving twist ...

The pond should have realised that the mad monk, onion poised at the lips, would lead with the Amish ...

Only a dim-witted Catholic would mock the Amish as a way of attacking climate science, but here we go, here we go ...

Here we go again - the surest sign of irrelevance, at least outside the devoted world of the reptiles. 

Back in my day, in Queen's College, and back in my day in the Howard cabinet, and back in my day looking up by bum, and back in my day collecting fluff from the navel ...

The pond felt some remorse and the need to run the rest of the bandana-wearer just for balance, and for talk of "virtue signalling", which will come in handy later on ...

But enough of that - the twittering of the twit Bartholomew is easily googled - and so it's back to the onion muncher, with some good news at the end of it ...

The good news? 

Even the reptiles could take only so much of this shit ...

They edited the text, they cut the onion muncher down to size and space ... and happily that leaves room for a bonus ...

You see yesterday the reptiles slipped in another climate denialist, the Pommie coal lover who travels at the pond by the nick of Ridders ...

Ridders was tucked down the page ... at the top was yet another celebration of coal, and Cory trying to redeem his dress folly, and there was a bit of a blackface tomfoolery, and then came Ridders ... and what do you know, he was obsessed with that previously raised matter of virtue signalling ...

Google also loved the notion of "virtue signalling"....

This is the latest in a long conga line of pathetic clichés led in the absence of actual thinking ...

It's interesting to look at the way terms like this spread from academic circles into lesser minds like some kind of virus or mind parasite set loose in a Colin Wilson story ... 

Something is sucking the human mind dry?!

Just look to the reptiles and Ridders and talk of virtue signalling ...

Greg Hunters will find a history of virtue signalling detailed in a wiki here ... but now it's time to get on with the coal-loving, mind sucking thoughts of Ridder ...

And for all Ridders' idle chatter, the tiki torches still march in the United States ...

But now we come to a stunning admission from the virtue signaller furiously signalling his virtue when it comes to virtue signalling virtue signallers, and yet somehow virtuously failing, though the pond can't resist apologising for spreading the virus a little further, as noted in the Graudian here ...

Dammit, the pond is game for some unprotected sex, some further Ridders fucking of the mind with his virtue signalling. Come doctor, with that large needle, bring forth the virus ...

They've largely lost the argument on climate science? Oh no, say it ain't so ... please remind us again how coal is the future of the planet ...

Never mind, the virtuous circle is complete, to drag back from the past another mindless cliché. 

You see, Lawson provided the venue for the mad monk's Amish bashing, and he and Ridders and the onion muncher are all in the same luddite crowd ...

Lawson's climate denialist mob are your typical IPA crowd ... as can be read at The Conversation here ... furtive, secretive, and cheeky in their capacity for error ..

Head off for working hot links and for talk of the mad monk on climate science ... 

All the pond will note is the way that this unholy trio all regularly congregate down under at the lizard Oz to virtue signal their many climate denialist, coal loving virtues... the whole mad bunch from the onion muncher to Ridders, thanks be unto Lawson ...

The reason, as the pond has noted, is simple enough. Who wouldn't want a world turned into a hot rock, so that the entire planet might become a nicely heated herpetarium for climate denying reptiles?

And with that thought at last the pond reaches the infallible Pope, showing the sort of cage match arising from those who listen to the onion muncher and the coal-loving reptiles, with more papal advice freely dispensed here ...