Diaries up for rescue tonight:
- Patriot for Al Gore's WATER WARS: War Over the Kalabagh Dam? examines Pakistan's water problems and U.S. intervention in them by funding a dam that favors one group over another. This diarist has numerous entries dealing with political and ecological struggles over water access worldwide, and I recommend you check them out in full.
- edencho's Peckerwood Nation is a rant on how the rural, undereducated male Southern vote is reinvigorating racism and sexism in this country, and where this incitement will lead.
- dday's The Democrats Are Fighting Back and Getting Tough provides a sweeeet round-up of Democratic responses to Republican words and action in the past week or so ... a hopeful sign for deeds and statements leading up to the November election.
- Sirocco's St. Vitus Day: a brief history of Kosovo gives a detailed history of one of the world's most troubled regions.
- Conceptual Guerilla's It's The Ideology, Stupid offers terrific tips on going head-to-head with conservatives on ideology, with some particularly good zinging framing on display - like "cheap labor conservatives."
- HoundDog's The Revenge Of The Taliban 2.0: They Are Back, Rearmed, Better Funded, and More Vicious Than Ever details the resurgence of the Taliban while Bush decided to focus on Iraq.
- Devilstower's Super Heroes, Super Villains looks at the influence and motivation of science and researchers on the national political discourse.
- greggish's Grassroots Campaigns Inc's Great War of 2004: MoveOn Succumbs to the Cycle of Shrum further explores shortcomings in the grassroots organizational model in terms of fundraising, employee burnout, bad strategies for GOTV and deferring to "expert" consultant advice.
- Mr Populist's Investigate the White House Source of Leaks, Not the NY Times asks the glaringly obvious: Why go after the NYT and not the government leaker in the administration? Bonus: Quotes from Bush as early as 2001 clearly stating the government was investigating financial ties to terrorism.
- kmiddle's How to Reduce the Size of Government comes up with a creative snarky solution to reducing government - combine and create 10 states! (This is worth reading for the 10 state names and descriptors alone.)
- Seneca's Theodore Roosevelt and Taxing the Rich explores some of TR's wrestlings with taxation of the rich and his views on amassed wealth.
- pat of butter in a sea of grits' Demzilla vs. Mothra (er, Voter Vault) compares the databases used by the two major parties, and the results are enough to make you cry. First-time diarist.
- redstar's Tale of Two Papers: Gaza Crisis in Le Monde v New York Times compares media coverage and analysis of the unfolding events in Gaza ... and the Grey Lady doesn't look so hot.
Carnacki's Top Comments of the Day are a must-read, as usual.
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