As nearly everyone knows, blogging is basically voluntary. People put in a LOT of spare time doing it and it doesn’t pay the bills (except in a few cases). And there may be family crises, critical education requirements, new jobs that can interfere with doing it on a regular basis.
Some of our always independent guest bloggers now have some of other things going on that (rightfully) will take top priority so some may be blogging a bit less in coming weeks and then do more later or a reduced amount later.
So we’re adding two additional GREAT centrists bloggers Justin Gardner of Donklephant and Dean Reese of Today’s Democracy. Both have on several occasions expressed interest in posting on this site.
We’re not removing anyone from our lineup, by the way. No one has asked to be taken off or has decided to quit, but they may do a bit less due to factors beyond their control. We are hoping though, that all of our co-bloggers continue to post when they want to and when they can.
With these two great writers, we think our co-bloggers’ roster is now complete. TMV is a personal fan of each of the writers you see in the upper left hand corner under CONTACT (the link takes you to their sites) and is greatly honored to have each and every one of them contribute to this site.
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.