In which toxic waste mingles with a familiar Polonius ...

The pond was startled, shocked, to see it lying there, in a Newtown street ...

Luckily the pond's long, rigorous training immediately kicked in. Just as some are trained to deal with asbestos removal, so the pond knows how to deal with toxic sludge.

Even so, it was a narrow squeak. What if some innocent child of hippies had strayed by, picked up the sludge and taken it home? The physical and mental damage might have lasted a lifetime, and without any magic water to hand to redeem the situation ...

Now some will suggest the pond is being unnecessarily alarmist, but the fact is this sort of contaminated bile is much prized in certain parts of the world, just as terrorists yearn for a lump of uranium ...

Don't worry, those suppliers also had a spare harbour bridge available for your bidding ... and if you looked elsewhere, it's actually as cheap as chips, or even free ...

The pond immediately began decontamination procedures. 

Even though it was ancient, circa 2003, and its originator had retired to senile silence - the last forlorn tweet sighted back in August 2017 - it was still well within an active half-life, and extreme care had to be taken with the contents.

Much had to be discarded, like the defence of Dame Slap, and the discussion of Fox News ...but luckily there was a little that might be redeemed and put to good use, in much the same way as some atoms do good ...

You see, clearly the magic water man had an intense dislike of prattling Polonius, and the pond found the toxic sludge just in time for Polonius's Saturday outing. 

Might it not be good fun to hurl a little on his finery? Might it not be fun to see what was said about Polonius and his spouse?

Oh indeed, indeed ... and now like Captain Atom on a radioactive high, it's off to the Polonius of the day ...

Uh huh. The pond knows how this will run. There'll be cluck-clucking and tut-tutting and a wringing of hands, and a search for other villains - no doubt pesky difficult blacks will be given a going over - and then it will be mentioned in passing how everyone unfairly singled out the Catholic Church ...

Now there's much in the toxic sludge and at one point or another, the pond will get around to other gobbets, detailing sponsors, wondering what the Sydney Institute's board actually does, sycophantic hero worship of prattling Polonius, and much more ...but for the moment, this is just the tip of the Adler iceberg ...

But the pond must do its duty, and pay due and proper heed to Polonius's prattle of the day ...

Uh huh, well that pretty much went to form, though there's something intrinsically perverse using the suffering of Aboriginal children as a distraction from the suffering of children at the hands of the Catholic church ... but then Polonius has a diligent history of celebrating sponsors' causes, and staying silent when it comes to other matters ... as noted in this page-turner ...

And so to the predicted mention of the Catholic church ... and remember, whatever it takes, Polonius is there to do what must be done ...

Yep, that's pretty much Polonius at his most predictable ... it's all the fault of the cops and the pesky difficult blacks, and once again, the Catholic church has been unfairly blamed, and once again it has been downgraded or even exonerated by no less authority than the magisterial Polonius ...

And so to another note ...

You see, while Lloydie scribbled furiously about climate alarmism, other reptiles were discovering that the weather had turned a tad warm ...

They even put it on the front page of the tree-killer edition ...

You see, it's nothing to do with climate change. 

We just need more power. Where's the coal when that's what the world needs? 

More coal ... coal, coal, coal, oi, oi, oi ... which just happens to set up the Pope of the day, with more papery here ...