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George Will, Washington Post. An expert on games from baseball to politics, Will is one of the best-read people in a smart city.

George Will’s column today:

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. Eastern time on Wednesdays. Cartoons seem, alas, to be the most effective means of seizing a mass audience’s attention.

By the transitive property, Mike Judge’s cartoon is better at explaining the news than any journalist in Washington.