A prominent and popular progressive blogger is coping with breast cancer — and another blogger who has had his own health challenges is literally there to give her moral support. Our prayers go out to one (that she’s OK) and to the other (thanks that, yes, there really are people here who in a moment of truth act like guardian angels here on earth).
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.