A note to our wonderful readers.
For the past year The Moderate Voice has posted for every single day with the exception of Guest Blogger stints on Dean’s World. That’s due to TMV having a laptop.
The laptop is totally dead. Say prayer for it.
Last night TMV left for a trip that will take him from Southern California to Northern California back — all within a three and a half day period. With NO LAPTOP (one was ordered Tuesday).
Fortunately two bloggers who we admire a lot for the quality of their independent thought (even though we do not always agree with every single one of their posts…but then no one EVER totally agrees with TMV) have agreed to be Guest Bloggers today through Saturday.
We hope you’ll give a warm welcome and serious read to Jack Grant of Random Fate and Greg Piper of The Smoking Room.
Neither of them spend time denouncing other bloggers or name calling but are issue-oriented people. Whether you agree with everything they write or not, you’ll note that they think about what they write and they write what they mean.
TMV will try to chime in…if he can get to a hotel or school computer between his shows and his looooooong drive (which may be done during a big storm). But if he can’t, this site will do just fine as a bile-free zone.
Keep checking back today for the Guest Posts.
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.