This is the first posting on this blog, which I hope will provide a semi-coherent commentary on modern media, politics and the convergence between the two. I've called it "Another Stream in the Firehose", in acknowledgment of the by now quoted-to-death reference by Richard Lanham in "The Electronic Word"; where he likens trying to consume information to drinking from a firehose.

So, this is my humble contribution to the billions of bits circulating the planet each day. As Lanham says, as the volume of available information increases, what inevitably becomes more valuable is the time we need to filter and consume it.

Well, from today you'll need another fifteen seconds.