ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J.R. Norton lives in Minneapolis and works as a producer for "The Al Franken Show."
He got his start at The Christian Science Monitor, where he served as the paper's Middle East editor. He then joined Air America Radio, where he was the founding research director for "The Al Franken Show." He currently serves as one of the show's producers.
His travels have taken him to the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia (where he watched George W. Bush accept his nomination for the presidency), the West Bank towns of Hebron and Qalqilya, and to the John Kerry campaign rally in Boston on election night 2004. He was nearly arrested by the Secret Service for accepting doughnuts passed over a security fence.
Norton is a native of Madison, Wis. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he edited The Daily Cardinal, and founded Flak Magazine, a daily online journal that has been published continuously
for seven years. Among other plaudits, PC Magazine named Flak one of its "Top 100 Undiscovered Sites" in 2003.
He can be reached at jim@flakmag.com.
