As a nation, we’ve now passed the Election – 1-year mark. I was already sick of the incessant chattering and poor logic by our ‘media pundits’, who hear what they want to hear and report on things not said. I suppose it is only going to get worse but sigh… one can hope. I don’t mind vigorous debate and sharply delineated lines but when it is based on distortion and the need to be noticed, I draw the line. Can’t we have a civil discussion where we are all fair even if we are not friends?
Well there is nothing unfair in our columns this week.
About Comics looks at Grant Morrison’s new title Nameless. Part horror epic, part Jungian archetypal story, part semiotics in visual representation, it is a grand idea that falls short.
Imagine that you’ve bought a product online and when it arrives it isn’t at all what the seller said it would be. Suppose that when you tried to return it they ignored you. You would be angry and willing to share your nightmare with the rest of the world. For some people in the same position who find out that their purchase involved a term-of-service restriction to their online free speech that’s when the nightmare begins. Common Cents talks about the need for a free flow of information in an economy and how proposed legislation would help protect our right to yelp.
Trying to make a logical decision is hard. It is harder still when qualitative aspects are involved and more than one person is charged with deciding. Aristotle to Digital examines the Analytic Hierarchy Process way of coming up with a logically supported rationale.
Finally, Under the Hood peaks a bit more at the benefits of dividing a matrix up into column and row arrays. Come see how coordinate transformations, physical units, orthogonal matrices, and eigenvalue all link together.
Enjoy!