So many things happening during the week, it's hard to know where to start, but the return of the immortal Rowe to twitter here is a good place …who knows what happened, but who cares. Every angry Anglican terrified by Satanists pounding at their door demanding candy knows the story of the prodigal …and now he has returned, and so there is a corner of sanity in the full to overflowing intertubes ...
And then the pond woke up this day and immediately knew it was true …
So he's a foreign agent! And the bold, brave Dame Slap has turned investigative reporter, with the lesser Kelly …they must be really short-handed at the lizard Oz …mixing an activist columnist with reporting in a way that the Major Mitchell would love ...
And they wonder why the pond still treasures the onion muncher every day … why only yesterday the parrot led with this …
Yes, talk to the foreign agent, he'll fix you up …
And then during the week the prime Angus beef brought more joy and life and cholesterol of the naughty kind to the pond …
Naturally the immortal Pope had a cartoon to hand for the occasion…
Full as a fucking goog observing the thoughts and deeds of the Nimmitabel loudmouth ...
And that picture of SloMo reminded the pond of a Crikey conspiracy story during the week …
Well, there was a lot more, and it's a pity the pond doesn't do spoilers of indie stories, but the details were of the kind you might expect about a loon who hangs around with the Hillsong cult and its cult leader Brian Houston, and who expects the rapture to land by Xmas, or at least some time pretty soon after…
Why, in that context hanging with a Qanon loon seems pretty straight …and the only forlorn aspect to the story was Crikey's expectations that others in the mainstream might want to step into this sort of murky water ...
Speaking of murk, heading right back to Monday - the lizard Oz is timeless in its comedy - the Major got the week off to a great start …
The lizard Oz rabbiting on about activist journalists? Only in the land of the faraway tree, and a rag so activist, and yet so useless, they have to give it away at airports throughout the land …but at least you might now understand why the pond was so pleased to see Dame Slap team-tagging with the lesser Kelly and pretending to be a journalist ...
And that brought the pond back to this weekend, and the dog botherer, going totally weird …
The pond apologises for the gap … the reptiles seem to think leaving a huge gap evokes the distance between meaningful thought and meaningless scribbler …
Anyhoo, the dog botherer must have had a domestic or some sort of nervous breakdown, because his latest piece started off this way …
That picture and that dribble almost made the pond have a nervous breakdown, especially as it went on and on, and the pond simply couldn't run any more, for fear of having what Bazza once called the great Australian technicolor yawn …
And yet it swept the pond back to the good old days …
Yes, it's still up at Junkee here, the pond likes to drop back in to check every so often ...
And that talk of climate science swept the pond back to the dog botherer doing what he does best last Monday in the lizard Oz …
Yes, never mind the gap in the graphic, the dog botherer went right off …
That's what happens when a crazed, fanatical zealot comes up against alternative views of reality … a "scandalous attack"?!!?
What a loon ...
Okay, it would be wrong to proceed without a cartoon, given that we know that Pitman's centre had issued a clarification, and still the dog botherer can't come at it in a meaningful way…
Well yes, Pat, the pond is worried by anything that pure Angus beef does to the system … but back to the dog botherer, still not wanting to address the clarification in a meaningful way…
Why? Because let's face it, it's full of algebra, and scientific gibberish, and who wants to be reminded of that sort of stuff, especially if you happen to be a denialist cretin, only armed with "semantics" as an argument?
Yes, note how the dog botherer dealt with the clarification! Semantics … because that's as much maths as he can do ...
There's seldom been a better demonstration that the dog botherer is better off writing about fatherhood … because at least he produced a son who thought showing him in bestial embrace was great fun …
And so to the column filler for the week, distilled essence of prattling Polonius …
Could there be any truer words?
And with the end of Bercow, comes the end of the pond's interest in British politics …who cares if the country rides a Boris horse backwards into oblivion?
And for those who possibly think it's wrong of the pond to cram Polonius's words with cartoon treats even before he gets properly started?
Oh shush, the pond is still recovering from Halloween sugar overload, so why not, because cracked dry wafers are your lot with the desiccated Polonius's prattle ...
And that's why O'Neil, and the rest of the current headless ALP, are wandering around like lost chooks, not knowing what to think or do or say, and apparently clueless as to the ways a zealot like Polonius would immediately twist their mindless stupidity into an attack on the ABC … though as usual, the immortal Pope offered a different angle …
Why is it that liberals, progressives, dunce members of the ALP are so willing to stick out their hand, apparently unaware that mad uncles that come down from the attic aren't interested in calm talk over a cup of tea? They're only interested in winning ...
But back to Polonius, and in his obsession with the ABC, the pond wonders whether he's showing classic signs of paranoia, or is merely barking mad ...
Rowland might understand her electorate, but apparently Polonius didn't notice the Australia-wide vote on same-sex marriage …
And as for Joel Fitzgibbon, one of the reasons the pond will never vote for the Labor party in its current guise …
Yes, Joel wants a seat at that very same table, and he's welcome to it, but if a fuckwit like that thinks appealing to, and scoring the approval of the likes of prattling Polonius is the way to get into power, then the ALP is further gone off the deep end than the pond realised ...
Uh huh … speaking of boxes and shelf space, is there are clue as to why O'Neil might have looked elsewhere for a topical subject? What might possibly be of interest to traditional ALP voters?
Never mind.
As usual, there's more truth and insight from the cartoonists than from the ALP, or prattling Polonius using their stupidities for his own purposes ...
Sneering secularists?
Oh just fuck off, sneering old fundamentalist loon Catholic, go drink a little human blood and swallow that wafer of human flesh, and see if the pond cares …
But at least the occasion, and your usual sneering verbiage meant the pond could catch up on a flurry of cartoons celebrating your form of worship …
Well, there didn't seem to be much to say about Saturday's opener, did there. When Doggy Bov Kenny can appear under a heading that says: "Climate debate abounds with deception" all one can do is applaud his perspicacious self-confession. Although to be honest, the Doggy Bov just isn't clever enough to actually produce "deception" (other than his usual self-deception, boc).
ReplyDeleteBut when it comes to rampant self-deception, Polonius is the greatest. Consider:
"Labor's immediate task is not to appeal to progressives but to win back as many economic and social conservatives as possible -- quite a few of whom follow [Alan] Jones."
Oh sure, Polonius, sure. That's just what the ALP needs: cottoning on to the aging Jones audience. According to Mumbrella, Jones manages an "average audience" of about 169,000 out of a Sydney population of about 4.6 million. ( https://mumbrella.com.au/what-five-years-worth-of-radio-data-tells-us-about-the-industry-sydney-566714 }. Though his average audience actually fell to about 108,000 in one survey conducted in 2017.
So that's 169,000/4,600,000 = 3.67% of Sydneysiders comprising an audience of which it has been truthfully said that the vast majority of them have well-established and inflexible political allegiances, which obviously align with Jones. So yeah, Polonius, Labor's "mission impossible" is to win over all those Jones listeners and then they'll never ever lose another election.