Word Soup

As a kid who grew up reading Frank Miller and company, I'm not sure how I missed Warren Ellis's graphic novel Transmetropolitan, but I've corrected the error.

As a writer who spends every day dissecting corporate press releases and wading through astroturf to offer technology consumers something that vaguely resembles truth, I found his quote in this interview particularly refreshing:

"There is such a thing as truth. Non-relative, unassailable, valuable truth. Do not let people relativise the concept of truth into vapour."

That interview was in 2002, and his fear by now is an all pervasive American culture meme that says the truth is subjective and relative. That if you argue long enough or loudly enough you can shift the pillar of truth one hundred meters closer to you (made easier of course if you have your own think tank and paid-off scientists to blow smoke up the public's ass at your behest).

The result is a country filled with millions of people, politicians, bloggers and companies that are never wrong -- and do the right thing at all possible times.

But enough about that, the world needs more panda porn.