Open Thread and Diary Rescue

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Tonight’s selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers

February 14 may be most famous for cards, flowers, chocolate, and inevitable lover’s spats, but it’s also got a lot of history behind it – previous todays have seen the beheading of St. Valentine (legend says in 278); Ayatollah Khomeini proclaiming a fatwa upon Salman Rushdie (1989); and Arizona becoming the 48th U.S. state (1912).

This evening’s Rescue Rangers are BentLiberal, Cordelia Lear, Got a Grip, grog, jlms qkw, joyful, and ybruti, with Unitary Moonbat mixing up the Elixir of Love you’ll find below.

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Domestically Speaking

• First-time diarist JayHub explores the problem of Superdelegates: What to Do? (ybruti)
• A Siegel reports on the failures of the proposed Lieberman-Warner Bill in Global Warming Legislation: What matters? (joyful)
• Diarist MalachiConstant muses on whether there’s still a place for him in the party in Time to strike the BIG tent? (BentLiberal)
• studentloanjustice reveals how Blue Dog Democrats Sold out Students Last Week. (ybruti)
• rachelgbd updates us on how immigration reforms affect victims of domestic violence in Chipping away at VAWA to fight terrorism. (grog)
• Chris Rodda takes a close look at an awful piece of faith-based legislation and the distortions of its sponsors, and in the process gives us a fastastic, well-researched history lesson in Borat “Star” Co-Sponsors House Resolution 888. (Got a Grip)
• Milos Janus Outlook gives us some salve for our wounds in Gratitude, FISA, and HR 2082, because sometimes it’s hard to challenge the Bush administration. (jlms qkw)

From the Philosophy Desk

• The Nature of 21st Century Conflict is a comprehensive and sobering look at the nature of war, privatization of armies, sexual violence as a tactic and much, much more. A truly outstanding piece. By SocProf. (BentLiberal)
• barrettbrown shares the light of reason in the face of the darkness of fundamentalism while debunking Intelligent Design in The Second Law of Thermodynamics and You! (jlms qkw)
• Bendygirl encourages everyone to buy locally and ask whether products are fair trade certified in Slaves to Chocolate, My Valentine Edition. (Cordelia Lear)
• Vox Libertas weighs the spectacle of a “professional journalist” failing to do his job adequately against the David vs. Goliath-like courage of an intelligent young woman speaking truth to idiocy in School Girl vs “Professional Journalist”. (Got a Grip)

The Reality-Based World News Roundup

• possum schools us on what justice should be in today’s world and asks our help in getting there in On Justice, Pt 2. (Got a Grip)
• amad tells us of a hate crime and the awful bigotry behind it in Islamophobia: “Christian Identity” White Supremacists Charged on Plan to Destroy US Mosque. (Got a Grip)
• Confessions of a (former) super-delegate is diarist terjeanderson’s interesting look at the timely issue of super-delegates. (BentLiberal)
• Third in what seems to be a series of tongue-in-cheek farewells to the Big Orange, GBCW brings us another snark-y sayonara and reminds us that Each ending is a beginning. (joyful)

Light Emitting Pickle has tonight’s Top Comments 2/14 – I Hate V-Day Edition.

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