In which the pond trills along with our Gracie in lieu of a Sunday meditation ...

The pond has absolutely no explanation as to why our Gracie should be front and centre of the digital lizard Oz on a Sunday ...

Is it a way of distracting punters wanting to settle down for a solid Sunday of Speccie reading? What with Andrew L. Urban and Flinty out and about that's a power of distraction required ...

But it's a fair call, because our Gracie is rarely promoted to the top of the page and yet she trills in a delightful way ...

 

In spectra-sonic sound no less, the ultimate in high fidelity ... and how do the lyrics go?

Big government?

Ah, we all know where that leads us, that sort of cheap, idle rhetoric ... a field day of fun for cartoonists ...

And along with that rhetoric can often be found a populist, offering even more fun for cartoonists ...

But we haven't even begun to listen to our Gracie trill her song ...

Indeed, indeed, this is like one of those old tunes on hits and memories stations, the more solid the gold the more repeats it scores for the day ...

And as the pond is always keen to hum an old-fashioned tune, and play the game ...

Oh please miss, please, the pond loves to play this sort of mindless binary sort of silliness and in that spirit, the pond has another quiz ...

Pick your gut reaction:

A. Times are tough, you don't have a discretionary spend, or if you do, it seems not enough for you to spend up on the indiscretions you like ...This must be awful. Do you look at wasteful items spent on useless trivia, such as a subscription to the lizard Oz and Foxtel, or do you think they need your charity, and keep on throwing good money after bad? As a result, you can't lash out on the pokies, gamble on sport and drink yourself into an early grave ...

B. Times are tough, you don't have a discretionary spend, or if you do, it seems not enough for you to spend up on the indiscretions you like ...This must be awful. Do you at last take action and cancel your subscription to the lizard Oz or shame of shames, a Murdochian tabloid, and indulge in a bout of cable-cutting, Foxtel having directly contributed to the dire state of your broadband service? Now you can lash out on the pokies, gamble on sport and drink yourself into an early grave ...

Hmm, tough choices, but our Gracie knows all the answers ... and after this, you might want to reconsider your own answer ...

That's what you pay money for?

Simplistic analysis of the most mind-rotting, meaningless binary kind, with the sort of cheap idle rhetoric that took the GOP down the path to the Donald? 

Might as well go and splash the cash on the pokies ... so that you can be taxed by the government, because remember, the pokies are the epitome of capitalist society and all that our Gracie loves ...

And now, because low comedy is never enough, the pond always likes to end on a note of high comedy, and trusts that everyone has caught up with the latest bit of Boris ...

It's easily googled ...

... and it shows the very best of our Gracie's Tories at work, diligently providing opportunities for cartoonists of the Rowson kind, with more Graudian cartoons here ...