Blaming a Generation

One outrage after another. Obama’s recent defense of DOMA leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I won’t continue, I may start to blub again if I do, and I don’t feel like being smug anyway. Claiming that banning Gay Marriage is good for the federal budget, and then invoking incest and pedophilia does not [...]

Out of Africa: Financial Innovation

We’ve made the world a depressing place. Everywhere you look, all the good stuff is buried under a thick and powerful layer of crud. Sort of like an endless mall parking lot. Seedlings push through it every now and again. You can’t even see them from a distance and if you stepped on them, they’d [...]

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New Media Covers Iranian Riots in Real Time; U.S. Cable Channels, Not So Much

For the past couple of days, The Confluence has been using Twitter to live-blog the riots in Iran following an election that was most likely rigged (see here, here and here). Several newspapers have taken note of the rise of new media real-time coverage of the Iranian situation and the criticism of cable news outlets [...]