We’re so embarrassed to tell you: we DO make mistakes. If you’ve visited this site and seen a feature or post appear then suddenly vanish, or if you’re a blogger who gets a trackback to a post here and it turns out the post is gone but appears later, it’s due to our learning the new WordPress software. On several occasions we didn’t set the timer correctly, so we took the post off the site and set it correctly. If only we could fix mistakes in our lives — or in government policies — so easily. But we can here. So we do. Still: sorry…
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.