So when I read that a big maker of the stuff had cut production, my first thought was: Good riddance.
I was so invested in the wolf dog by the time he was heroically thwarting house invaders that my main thought was: "Good boy!" It was only afterwards that I reflected that this finale might have been over-the-top.
"But the thought was good.
It means that the kids were paying attention to what the adult thought was good or bad, and then behaving accordingly.
When I saw the recent headline that Mark Twain scholar Alan Gribben was removing all the n-words from Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, my first thought was: Good!
"The photographer had an idea, which I thought was good aesthetically, that there would be a mist of water between him and me.
"He was acting on behalf of what he thought was good for the city, and it was his opinion". But Soboroff kept pushing.
And where possible, tell them what you thought was good.
When I wrote something they thought was good, they told me so matter-of-factly.
In short, everything you thought was good about the Internet — information, access, personalization — is bad.
We're all used to hearing that everything we once thought was good for us is not.
