In which the pond decides TGIF goes best with desiccated coconut ...

 

Reluctantly, the pond has had to issue the onion muncher a final warning. Get more active or lose your position at the top of loon pond ...

Compare Cory's epic posturing, his solid stunting, against the onion muncher's feeble squawk, and watch the headlines roll in ... is there a spot for "Yesterday's Hero"?

 

Yes, the Terrorists were wildly excited.

Everybody's hot to trot with Cory, and as it seems we can be un-PC, what about these Cory?

And so to the news of the day, and how pleasing it is to see Lloydie and Bjorn team-tagging in the usual Oz way ...

 

Meanwhile, on another planet, hopefully not this one ...

You can read that one at the Graudian here, or you can google up the dissembling, disingenuous Lloydie with the skewed headline, or the climate denialist turned climate confusionista ...

Speaking of alternative realities, the pond was gratified to see the ABC doing its thing in relation to the Donald ...

 

Now the pond had to overlook the basic illiteracy of that last splash.

The pond thinks it knows what the ABC was trying to say, but the ABC is now littered with barbarians ever ready to mutilate the English language, and it probably didn't occur to them that it might be possible to read the headline as saying A year on, Trump is more popular with his own party, the Republican party, than Obama or Clinton were with the Republican party ...

Still, basic illiteracy aside, the pond was astonished when turning to the lizard Oz to see good old Henry "hole in the bucket" Ergas take a slightly different view ...

Now the pond rarely pays attention to Henry, with the desiccated coconut in the kitchen cupboard usually offering a higher level of excitement, but the world is celebrating a year of the Donald, and with the Chinese hoax cruelly exposed by the lizards of Oz, it seemed the right way to proceed for a TGIF ...

As always, Henry is on to something. It would be terribly easy to blame the Donald with his tweeting and his habit of picking a fight with anyone within shouting distance, but in reality, it's all the fault of the commentariat ... or the deep state... or something ...

The pond is rarely picky, but that last line about "almost a century of relative political predictability has given way to incessant turmoil" really attracted the pond ...

If the pond might be so bold, good old Henry seems to be talking about a century which by any reckoning would see the great war to end wars coming to a close, a war that loomed over the following decades like a spectre ...

In the United States there was Prohibition and a wild ride which led to the most spectacular crash, known as the Great Depression, which apparently good old Henry thought led to a lot of relative political predictability ...

That was followed by the second world war and nukes, and in turn came the cold war, and somewhere in there was the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the latter producing a decade of relative political predictability ...

Now the pond could go on and on about the relative political predictability of Kennedy's assassination or Nixon's eighteen and a half minute gap, or other predictable political events, but it came to a crashing halt, in a predictable way, because the pond broke good old Henry's rule about the Donald, seeing as how all the late night hosts were making out like bandits with the latest story of a dark and stormy night ...

Ewww here, because the pond must return to the desiccated coconut ...

And there at the end, Henry becomes just another weather forecaster, with high volatility likely, and extreme highs and lows, and blather about Abraham Lincoln, as if the Donald has the remotest, slightest connection to Abe ...

The pond swore that it would never do another Donald tweet, but within the last twenty four hours, poor hapless John Kelly blathered about how Trump had changed and evolved, and thereby sent the Donald into a frenzy,  and the usual twitter storm, including ...

And there's poor old Henry trying to make sense of it all, while the reptiles work towards a deeper understanding of the many ways climate science is a Chinese hoax...

Freedom's last best hope? Freedom's last, best delusion ...

Around that point, all the pond could do was reach for a Rowe, with more reachable Rowe available here ...

Oh and while Cory is still hanging about like a bad smell ... and we all facilitate our wannabe Donald down under ...