Sep
26
2009
Here’s an amusing excerpt from a Washington Post article…
“We are at a point where no one could have even imagined 15 years ago,” said Albert J. Lurigio, a professor of psychology and criminal justice at Loyola University who has written about electronic monitoring and privacy since a New Mexico judge, inspired by Spider-Man comics, became the first to sentence a defendant to home confinement with an electronic monitor.
Does this mean we’re on the verge of surgically implanting explosive nanites in dangerous parolees? In your face, recidivism!
May
04
2009
Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine did an article on the role of politics in superhero stories.
It describes an interesting phenomenon: how superhero stories can brazenly delve into politics without turning off at least half of the audience. For example, The Dark Knight and Ironman and Team America all brought up political issues without infuriating either conservatives or liberals. In contrast, political polemicists like Michael Moore and Ann Coulter can’t even blink without angering the other side.
How is it that superhero stories can do what political writers can’t? Here are some explanations.
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