Diaries up for rescue tonight:
- AlanF's Rena, lungfish, and a stolen cap reflects on personal beliefs and actions of intervention in the larger picture of conservative versus liberal ideology.
- xrepublican's Proud Angry Moonbat looks at Zappa, Chomsky and Buckley (quite a trio) and comes up with a radical new agenda - speaking the truth, whether angry about it or not.
- dailyrev's On "De-Sacred-ing" the Flag argues for the notion of decoupling the "sacredness" of the flag - after all, only a symbol - from the support of practicing freedom and democracy.
- Mark H's Snail Shells: A Simple Twist of Fate marks the first in a series on marine animals, this one explaining the difference between left- and right-"handed" snail shells.
- dday's Article Prints EXACT Location of President's House! humorously points out that we've know the exact address of where the President of the United States lives for quite some time now. Must be some kind of huge conspiracy, since the White House is in on it too.
- Yosef 52's A National Embarrassment compares Bush's inability to speak coherently with Blair's verbal facility on the regular "Prime Minister's Question Time," in which the British leader is routinely peppered with challenging questions from the opposition.
- tim779's Whales, Nukes and Hope offers reflections on the environment and whaling, as well as a beautiful description of rising to see the sunrise at Pawleys Island.
- panicbean's Oh, How Could We? Our Local Marines Talk To Us. You Listen heartbreakingly relates the stories of a group of young Marines, who are off to relieve their comrades - and are amazingly anti-occupation, but see it as their duty to risk their lives for their fellow soldiers.
- wilco920's I Am a Democrat Because of Michael tells how a co-worker's disability has reinforced the diarist's belief in Democratic Party principles.
- exmearden's George and I and the Lake is an offering of the personal, the political and the lyrical in a salute to George Washington.
- AaronBa's Walter Lippmann: Why the Right Doesn't Get dKos shows that the top-down hierarchical model that the right has assigned to Daily Kos is as old as Walter Lippmann.
- ANKOSS' The American myth of redemptive military violence examines the national ethos elevating "good" violence because it channels "bad" violence.
- socialist butterfly's Declaration of Independence Signing Statements makes a start on imagining the current president's signing statements on our founding documents.
- Lupin's War and occupation through the eyes of a child is a powerful account of what occupation looks like - this one from a Frenchwoman who remembers the German occupation of her country when she was six years old.
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