It has been almost impossible to post from here due to the slow dial up speed. Any posts I’ve done have taken an enormous amount of time. I will be trying to post from a high-speed Internet location later today. In the meantime, keep checking back for co-bloggers’ 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.