OK. This is my last ‘Apocalypse Now’ headline
Britain’s Independent newspaper grabbed the phrase a few years back soon after we entered the new millennium. Just last week, Toronto’s Globe and Mail picked the two words to top a thoughtful piece on proper responses to the climate crisis.
George Will invokes “Goode Family”
I should have mentioned earlier that although George Will finds animated TV shows a bit beneath him, he still hopes ABC’s “The Goode Family” will pass along to the little people a sort of Cliff Notes version of his contempt of environmentalists.
In a syndicated column published in various newspapers over the last few days, the bow-tied conservative says:
The incessant hectoring by the media-political complex’s “consciousness-raising” campaign has provoked a comic riposte in the form of “The Goode Family,” an animated ABC entertainment program at 9 p.m. Wednesdays … . Cartoons seem, alas, to be the most effective means of seizing a mass audience’s attention. Still, the program is welcome evidence of the bursting of what has been called “the green bubble.”
Will considers a New Republic article by Terry Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger more in line with his towering intellect. Read more
