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The Sub-Prime Crisis: My response to a response to a response

September 21, 2008 by Don Radlauer 10 Comments

A friend of mine—an enthusiastic supporter of John McCain, or at least an enthusiastic opponent of Barack Obama, but otherwise a nice guy—forwarded a rather cute PowerPoint presentation that provided a rather snarky interpretation of the recent fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis. (I don’t know if the PowerPoint is available online anyplace—if I can […]

Olmert triumphs in poll – humiliating What’s His Name the Minister for Something or Other

January 7, 2007 by Don Radlauer 11 Comments

In a recent poll of 345 Kadima voters, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert triumphed over one of his fellow Cabinet members. Asked whom they would prefer to be Kadima’s next candidate for Prime Minister, the voters chose Olmert over the other minister by 8.7% to 5.8%. The only candidates the voters liked better than the […]

Living in denial

January 4, 2007 by Don Radlauer 11 Comments

Perhaps things are just as bad in the rest of the world, but it seems to me that the Middle East is suffering from an epidemic of denial: denial of the Holocaust, of course, but also lots of less spectacular denials of generally accepted fact*. This phenomenon does not bode well for our happy little […]

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. […]

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