Open Thread and Diary Rescue

(Tonight’s selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

This evening’s Rescue Rangers are claude, taylormattd, ezdidit, msobel, grog, Patriot Daily and Avila, with watercarrier4diogenes editing.

Tonight’s diaries cover some interesting issues with the kind of research, perspective and analysis we love to see at Teh Orange.  Tonight, just for the fun of it, we’re also presenting some guidance and examples of what we’d all prefer to see in that ever-present milieu, the candidate diary.

• markthshark has the details of an important free-speech rights case in this report as a Judge Quashes Bogus Subpoena for Identity of Anonymous Blogger. (claude)
• Stop, Don’t Touch that Faucet because, as Karen Hedwig Backman points out, Even Whores Wash Their Hands… but to the Bushites, it’s a terrorist act. (msobel)
• Emails from Senator Barbara Boxer and environmental studies scholar Bill McKibbon lead A Siegel to once again draw our attention to the global warming crisis in his latest diary, Schizophrenia in my inbox … Global Warming on the mind. (taylormattd)
• Livability, Not Sustainability, Should Be Our Goal, explains Bob Guyer as he analyses the terms and suggests a more inclusive paradigm than mere economics. (claude)
• My Candidate, He Has A Flavor, a seasoning for the leaden pasty gruel of too many of the candidate diaries from chefsnarkist Xeno of Elia. (claude)
• From second-time diarist Writebrain, a Florida housewife feeling less desperate in NH, an earnest report from a volunteer newbie to the trenches of retail primary politics.  Non-partisan from someone who is not a steely-eyed political geek. (claude)
• Personal testimony, simple and direct: yes, finally, we won: A Personal Story from CupofTea.  Even if you don’t support his candidate (I don’t), respect this example of how to speak for your candidate graciously. (claude)
• dburn takes a peek into what might be actually useful in a candidate diary: Suggestion: Readable Candidate Diaries. (claude)
• Bastoche writes about a neocon perspective advocating diplomacy with Iran in History and the Kagans: Paradise and Power VIII. (Patriot Daily)
• Did someone redefine “bipartisan” while I was sleeping? asks 8ackgr0und N015e. (ezdidit)
• grapes competently analyzes the Double Curse of Incompetence, with real science. (claude)

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