TMV still faces a difficult problem posting on this site.
He is now in his SECOND HOTEL (another Best Western) that advertised “high speed internet” but a)doesn’t have a plug for high speed internet and b)has wireless with a signal so weak it doesn’t work. At least this one has minimal dial-up.
But do to this his posts will be very limited today. He will post in the middle of the afternoon.
ALSO: If you are a blogger who has sent TMV a link, he’s holding onto his links for when he gets to a better site where posting is easier. Some of these links will be perhaps put up later today, or over the weekend in another version of Around The Sphere.
In the meantime, as always keep checking back to see what our independent-minded cobloggers have to say.
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.