While away your Friday night with some awesome diaries that were overlooked in the past day. I had more trouble narrowing it down today than I think I have since I started this, so please direct folks to diaries you think were overlooked. For now:
- Ed Tracey's My journey to Kos: Part II recounts the evolution of the diarist from centrist Republican to non-Republican to Kossack - and why he's going to YearlyKos. Great stuff.
- ubikkibu's Democratic SoS Candidate Offers Services to Republican Party details a hilarious Republican primary in Colorado and a devastatingly creative Democratic candidate response. This is what great campaigning looks like.
- murrayewv's Republicans are Wrong on Child Pornography argues that child abuse and neglect is at least as pressing problem as online child pornography, yet we hear little commitment to end it or fund it from the Bush administration.
- shock's Fundy Values: Not quite an oxymoron, just misguided is a REALLY terrific rundown of the beliefs of fundamentalists and how they can be dealt with on a personal level (by one who was raised fundamentalist and left the fold).
- theyrereal's Lee Raymond, Jimmy Carter, and the Windfall Profits Tax gives some great tips on countering GOP talking points about the windfall profits tax, based on the CEO's $400 million retirement package.
- antifa's The Five Percent Solution is a superb essay on the how the long-term plan all along has been to move the U.S. to Banana Republic status.
- countrycat's Alabama GOP Dogfight: Pull up a chair! gives a blow-by-blow of judicial races with quite the cast of characters (including Roy Moore) low blows being exchanged. Quite amusing.
- iliketodrum's The Ten Commandments Day brings us information about the Ten Commandments Commission, a group whose sole aim is to put the "word of God" in the Constitution.
- Vyan's Plame-gate: Re-examining the INR Document offers a detailed analysis of the secret status of the infamous INR memo.
- Thomas C's It's Morning In America gives a report of hopes rising for political change on the streets of New York City.
- SteveG's PTSD: What About the Children? recounts the PTSD experience of the diarist's grandfather as he died, remembering the battlefields of World War II, and discusses the future fate of Iraqi children who are experiencing their horror now.
- Arken's Let's Focus on Unity With a New Mantra: I AM SPARTACUS uses the model of Spartacus to urge Democratic unity instead of special-interest group splintering.
- the third policeman's Fela means Freedom is a heartfelt salute to late Nigerian musician Fela Ransome-Kuti and his articulation of freedom.
- wulidancer's Ground Breaking Lawsuit Against Blackwater outlines the suit families of the slain Blackwater contractors have filed in which the security firm claims blame for their deaths should be lain at the feet of the U.S. government. An important precedent and an informative posting from a first-time diarist.
- Daddeeo's Teacher Grades Bush gets to the heart of Bush and grades him accordingly, particularly deploring his lack of curiosity. Another first-time diarist deserving of attention.
Chat ... chat ... chat the night away.