Riding tonight's Diary Rescue streetcar are Rexymeteorite, ItsJessMe, HoosierDeb, dopper0189, srkp23, and BentLiberal, with YatPundit at the controls, on an always-hopeful New Orleans evening.
Diary Rescue is all about recognizing quality writing that's off the beaten path of the rec list. Be sure to read, tip, and comment!
- Unitary Moonbat offers a thorough and stunningly comprehensive History for Kossacks: The Imperialist Era's BP. (ItsJessMe)
- Ojibwa continues her series on Native American culture in Indians 101: Oklahoma Statehood & Indian Nations. (dopper0189)
- possum serves up an appetizing platter of Science Tidbits. (srkp23)
- In the last week, tens of thousands of blogs and forums have been shut down via a gag order that seems like a National Security Letter. breakingranks provides some facts, history and context, in UPDATED: Under the Colors of Patriotism: What Can't Happen Here is Happening Here (w/ Poll). (ItsJessMe)
- ethnografix reminds us that it wasn't just migrants 1000 years ago who crossed The Desert to the East. (ItsJessMe)
- A Siegel fills us in on Solar Decathlon: News from Europe ... News from DC .. (ItsJessMe)
- JDWolverton brings us a prime example of conservatives being their own worst enemy where it comes to Health Insurance Reform in I Just Got the Most Aggravating Phone Call. (rexymeteorite)
- wheatdogg explains why he's Starting year 3 as an ex-pat teacher. (ItsJessMe)
- Beginning by declaring, "My name is Mohammad ... and I am an undocumented immigrant," a student pleads for passage of the The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act in kyledeb's DREAM Now Letters: Mohammad Abdollahi. (BentLiberal)
- Here Is A Topic I Get Real Emotional About: Watching Louis Oosthuizen win the British Open, webranding thought about what is needed to find the next hidden genius or talent in an impoverished area. (ItsJessMe)
- Thutmose V knocks down the Right Wing argument that "big government is bad!" and points out that It's not how much government, but which government. (rexymeteorite)
- Cartwheels are supposed to be childhood fun, but Clytemnestra describes a time when they were for a far darker purpose. (ItsJessMe)
- A Siegel argues that Front Page Quotes Village Truthiness ... need to look behind the curtain. (srkp23)
jotter has High Impact Diaries: July 18, 2010.
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Please join the Rescue Ranger krewe this evening by suggesting our own picks in this Open Thread.