The Goode Things

Mike Judge’s new cartoon series The Goode Family is a remarkable thing considering its very existence in our political climate. Judge does it again and I can only hope for its continued success in skewering those ninnies on the eco-Left.

As George Will states,

"The Goode Family" does not threaten Jonathan Swift's standing as the premier English-language satirist. But when a Goode child apologizes to his parent for driving too much, and the parent responds, "It's okay . . . what's important is that you feel guilty about it," the program touches upon an important phenomenon: ecology as psychology.

The fact this series even exists points, I hope, to the impending (and welcome!) death to the hyper-surreal Green Movement which has no stake in reality.

ON a completely unrelated note, in clearing out unused files from my computer I found this in a PDF.

i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
iii. If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out.
iv.Never use the passive where you can use the active.
v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

This is of course George Orwell’s famous six elementary rules from his worthwhile and enduring essay, Politics and the English Language, 1946.

Happy Friday, everyone!