The Moderate Voice wants to give a heartfelt "Thank You" to our two highly talented Guest Bloggers Greg Piper and Jack Grant.
TMV means it when he says that he visits their sites often because he enjoys the way they write and has the utmost respect for the fact that they’re independent thinkers.
In this case, they were gracious enough to take time from their extremely busy schedules (they both have very full lives outside of blogging PLUS their own blogs) to help TMV out in a crunch — and it turned out to be a worst case scenario.
Between Wednesday night and this afternoon TMV drove nearly 1300 miles, which included getting stuck in traffic and driving in slow traffic in the rain. There was no chance to get on any computer due to the distances and slated programs. And since our laptop is 100 percent dead there was no way to check email or post on this site from our (cheap) hotel room. (Motel 6 DOES leave a light on for you by the way…).
We will start getting back to normal tomorrow with some selected posting (our batteries are quite low) on several important topics such as the Iraqi election results and be back to normal on Monday.
In the meantime, we hope you’ll keep checking in on Jack Grant at Random Fate and Greg Piper in The Smoking Room.
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.