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A Hedgehog’s Hasbara

December 26, 2006 by Don Radlauer 9 Comments

Last week I attended the second day of a conference on “The Media as a Theater of War, the Blogosphere, and the Global Battle for Civil Society”. (Unfortunately, I missed the first day, which actually covered a lot of the stuff I was most interested in. My immune system and assorted pathogens disagreed with my […]

Blogging toy of the day: WriteToMyBlog!

December 21, 2006 by Don Radlauer 1 Comment

In the past, I’ve used Microsoft Word to write most of my blog posts; I like its spell-checking and formatting (as opposed to the primitive capabilities of Blogger.com’s built-in editor), and I especially like the “smart quotes” feature, which automatically inserts “real” quotes (like the preceding) instead of the tacky “telegraph-style” quotes you get otherwise. […]

Lines and Inanity*

December 19, 2006 by Don Radlauer 9 Comments

Among the many odd bits of education I’ve picked up here and there, I’ve had the pleasure of receiving some very useful training in General Semantics – a rather obscure discipline that is very difficult to define, but which can be described as a system for promoting accuracy of thought and feeling. (One of my […]

Watching a watchdog: HonestReporting veers off course

December 10, 2006 by Don Radlauer 9 Comments

On 8 December, media watchdog HonestReporting came out with a special report on the new – and already discredited – United Nations Human Rights Council. The report is worth a read, although there’s not much there to surprise anyone who follows the United Nations and its relationship with Israel. As I dutifully read through the […]

The Son Also Rises

December 4, 2006 by Don Radlauer 2 Comments

According to the Jerusalem Post, Ariel Katsav – son and purported alibi witness of Israel’s embattled President Moshe Katsav, who has been accused of multiple counts of sexual harassment and rape – has now himself been accused of sexual harassment by a fellow employee of Israel Railways, where the younger Katsav is Director of the […]

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