In which petulant Peta offers Malware the chance to do some cat-herding ...

The lizards of Oz always produce wondrous, bizarre sights but this sad reflection reflecting on sad reflections produced so many reflections that the pond was blinded by the light ... cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night, blinded by the light, mama always told the pond not to look into the sights of the rambling spewman sun, ooh but mama that's where the fun is ...

Moving right along - what, you thought the pond would read rambling doucheman? This pond offers very low standards but it has some - it was time to revert to the Sunday Terror this day and read the thoughts of petulant Peta ...

The aim of this game is to see how she can cause Malware maximum grief, while appearing modest, reasonable, even conciliatory,  and by chance it was the subsidiary column, tucked away out of sight by the Terrorists, that offered the best hope for a classically devious Peta sighting ...

In the last few days, the standard reptile line has always been to conjure up the ghost of Eddie, but petulant Peta is just as interested in giving Malware a big fright ...

There's the obligatory Eddie reference, but then comes a kind of character reference for the wannabe usurper, along with a smiling photo that would never be seen in the lizard Oz ...

Remember, this is how the reptiles like to do it ...

Must the pond always be reminding the Terrorists of the correct form, the gravitas required? 

Please, absolutely no smiling ... remember, sinistra is all the go ...

By golly, she's a capable and appealing person done down by associating with Labor men, and Bennelong lost and Malware defeated by a seismic vote on the floor? 

That's nicely gloomy, how the onion muncher must have relished his Sunday morning snack, and then the pond went off to look at the main course for the day ...

The trick here isn't to join the rabid ranks of the Devine, or even petulant Peta's old homophobic onion-munching boss, but to sound perfectly reasonable as she outlines a set of demands ...

Note the deft jab at the very disagreeable and vocal Malware, caught out on a contradiction, and then the use of Malware's rhetoric to deliver another jab, and then there are those petulant demands to consider ...

Now the chance of Malware herding together his cats to deliver a bill on religious freedom is as remote as the pond's chance of scoring a fast, reliable NBN service ...

The previous attempt by Jimbo was a doozy, and proved that while you could prise the boy out of the wacky, zany IPA, you couldn't prise the wacky, zany ways of the IPA out of the boy ...

Petulant Peta proceeds to play the role of another cat, rabbiting on about the suffering of 'no' voters ...

It is of course a classic set-up, a jab ensuring that we will all note in the new year how Malware failed to keep his promise to protect religious freedom ...

Note that petulant Peta doesn't actually go into the tricky business of explaining how this should be done ...instead she rules out religious freedom protections being in the Marriage Act - despite there being provisions for religious freedom protections in the proposed Marriage Act - and she doesn't agree with the cake and florist arguments because that's entrenching discrimination ...

As indeed it would, as everyone pointed out when IPA loving Jimbo led with his legal chin, including in this AFR story currently outside the paywall ...

These cats aren't for herding, and certainly not in the time remaining before Xmas. They can't organise themselves, as they shift from banging on about 18C to banging on about ways to maintain assorted forms of discrimination ...

All the onion muncher knows is that it would be a chance to recover some lost face by banging on about the hapless voters in the bigoted minority ...

And so petulant Peta gets her revenge yet again by offering Malware the Sisyphean task of herding cats, and sorting out how to best maintain discrimination against the gays, a reminder that Greek history sometimes offers easier tasks, as a modern Donogenes might discover as he wandered towards Diogenes ...