Military blogger and indepundit Citizen Smash is being shipped out Saturday.
I’ve met Smash: he invited me over to his house on election night 2004 (I didn’t know it but he lives 5 minutes from my place). And I invited him and his wonderful wife (who is an actress) out for dinner around Xmas time. He is 100 percent for real — as a person, blogger, member of the military and as an independent thinker. He’s someone to admire and our best wishes and prayers are with him and we look foward to our next meeting in San Diego when he returns.
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.