In which the pond sprays on some Devine good grace and good faith, as promised ...

Remember that Devine talk of good grace?

It seems like so long ago, an eternity ... and luckily this Sunday Miranda the Devine provided a chance to see how the accepting with good grace was going (sadly Akker Dakker had the good grace to disappear, presumably on a holyday to lick his homophobic wounds) ...

First the pond had to get past another bit of Devine malice ...

Try telling that to the Donald ...

And so to the good grace, as the pond promised ...

That bit of street art immediately sent the right signal to the pond ... the Devine's good grace was going to be malice and vandalism in action ...

Now there's any number of things to note here, including the way that the 18C-loving Murdochians never actually show the full work in all its glory ...

And it's interesting that it would seem that Scott Marsh had actually secured the permission of the Botany View Hotel to put up his art, unlike the vandals who came along and vandalised it ... and who thereby helped spread the story further, as in this Fairfaxian report ...

"They have threatened staff and patrons," he wrote. "[They] are here to cover up a 'hateful' painting while spreading hate and fear in the process. Try and get that logic...."

...Hundreds have since left poor reviews on the pub's Facebook page, which has become a battleground, with many supporters of the pub commenting on, and disputing, one-star reviews. White and beige paint was thrown over Cardinal Pell's face on Wednesday. It is not known who defaced the mural. "It is what it is," Marsh said. "I try not to get too upset about those things." However, he said he was disappointed he didn't get a chance to "get a nice photo in the morning light".

Marsh has shown good grace at the fate of his artwork:

Despite the backlash, Marsh said most of the feedback he had received had been positive. "The response has been 98 per cent positive; the only negative response has been from a few Christian groups," he said. Following the first incident of vandalism, Marsh said he planned to leave the defaced mural as it was. "I think it's just a chapter in the life of the mural," he said. "When you're making public art, the reaction is important, the reaction is needed."

But why wouldn't he show good grace. Anyone wanting a copy of his street art of the onion muncher will need a couple of hundred bucks to get a limited edition print run of the epic portrait:

And now back to vitriolic Devine, determined to show a complete and utter lack of grace ...

Accept the result with good grace and in good faith? 

Attacking street art in Newtown and coming in and assaulting decent gods-fearing secularist and atheist folk with talk of invisible friends and prayers to a virgin teenager knocked up by the Lord? (well so they think in Alabama). What next? Insist that we all eat human flesh and swill down human blood on a Sunday?

Why they couldn't even find a shot of Magda Z with her eyes open, instead running an image with her in squinty Babe mode ...

Ah fuck, there it goes, the hysteria, the fear-mongering and the deeply fundamentalist bigoted Catholic homophobia, and Australia torn apart in ways we can't even imagine ...

If you can't imagine it, shut the good faith and good grace fuck up about it ... but no, instead we must be Devined in the usual way with the usual fragrance ...

Now the pond won't join that dreadful woman Laura Tingle leading the sniggering on The Insiders about the Devine hailing ScoMo's revival of his leadership credentials - that cat is so dead we must be on to its nineteenth life. Oh okay, it's another story in the Terror - google it if you must - but the real shock there is the sight of the Devine purporting to be a journalist filing a story, when it's just the culture wars by another name.

Never mind, there's still more of Devine the columnist, and you don't even get a decent set of steak knives.

You see, once the Devine gets on a roll, her lack of good grace, lack of good faith, knows no bounds ...

Now there were many comments beneath the Devine piece, with only a few trying to spark a rational discussion of the old fear-mongering Devine routine abut florists and bakers ...

How weird has it been getting of late? 

Why even gorgeous George - 'everyone has the right to be a bigot' - Brandis showed signs of getting testy, a little impatient, with the ramblings of the likes of the Devine ...

(paywall protected, text can be googled)

So the Christian bus driver said you look gay, so don't expect any service here, and the atheist bus driver said no true believers here, and the Jewish bus driver said Islamics can only ride in the luggage compartment ... and why did Barry Cassidy insist that the pond brood about bus drivers? What about mall owners banning gays from malls to provide a little protection for long suffering Xian shoppers wanting a Merry Xmas?

Never mind, the Devine show good grace and good faith in this matter? 

Of course not she can see years and years of shrieking and howling columns stretching out before her, complaining and moaning, and taking the black paint to other people's joys and desires ...

Why, if adultery is now to be the new standard, she can spend endless weeks shrieking about the way any number of Xians fuck like rabbits without respecting conventional Xian notions of marriage ... and end up in the divorce courts ...

And now, since the matter of adultery was raised at the start of the show, can the pond finish with a few cartoons about that peculiar Xian notion, as ripe with hypocrisy as the smell of a hundred year old egg ...

Oh and here's one for the gays ...