Bravo!  Jan Spoerri!  Bravo!  LOL!

The Simpsons is a continuing serial satire on modern American middle-class
life  (and I don't mean OJ!).

It isn't nearly as elegant as Swift and as witty as Mark Twain but what is
these days?  (I like to think of it as a modern Moliere'!)

The Simpsons show lampoons  everything from nuclear power plants to school
principals and families.  To take this show seriously about it's
representation of historical societies is to find that the joke has found
it's mark.

Cheers!
Dave

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