A reminder to readers: as we all get wrapped up in the news and politics of the day, we can lose sight of things that really matter. So yesterday we ran the first in an occasional series.
Since there’s plenty of good new stuff on this site today (just scroll down) rather than repost this long post we’re giving you THE LINK HERE in the hopes that this (and others to come) will help keep things in perspective.
NOTE:A reader is correct. The ends of the post are somehow cut off when you go to the link. So we will REPOST THIS POST for Saturday’s blog.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.