Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 6:57 PM by Gene

I should know better than to expect anyone at GRATE.COM would ever write for me. It seems one of their intellectuals in training (i.e., NOT ANOTHER INTERN!) spotted a nasty piece about THE SECOND GREATEST POP-CULTURE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY, but natch it is less nasty than lachrymose, because as everyone knows, "WE ARE CURRENTLY LIVING IN A NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", as evidenced by Jo-NAH's favorite A Kind of Futuristic Retelling of the Aeneid, and the examples this brave soul gives are off the air or have had audiences of less than three percent of the population, so they must be good; and our intrepid iconoclast nowhere mentions that this disappointment, which, with just a little bit of TLC, could be one of the GREAT ONES, gets less than one percent of America viewing. And needless to say after reading this bold, incisive criticism our GRATEr thinks even more highly of the masterwork because it's -- imperfect. "Circle jerk" is egregious but dammit I'm tired of news hacks treating their outlets like a high-school honor society, open to no one else and to no other views.