Diaries up for some love and attention tonight:
- A Rational Being's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail discusses Jared Diamond's books, Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, and the implications of his conclusions.
- marthature's Wisconsin 08 Analysis provides analysis of a race so important that Ken Mehlman put in a personal appearance last week.
- mrblifil's Theocrat Buys Philly Inquirer Newspaper. Just in Time to Help Santorum? delves into the Republican background of the investment group and the backers who just purchased the Philadelphia newspaper.
- Mash's Note to Senator Reid: Bypassing The Hayden Maginot Line (w/POLL) advises Senate Dems to abstain from voting on the Hayden nomination for CIA head when it reaches the Senate floor.
- Progressive Moderate's Potential Trouble for New York State Democrats in 2006? looks at the specific races in the political landscape of the state.
- snafu's Anatomy of an Anti-Liberal Viral Video takes an in-depth look at the spread of outrage in right-wing blogs of a supposedly representative important liberal activist ... of whom none of us have heard. Disinformation at work?
- NewDirection's Coalition Politics: Building Blocs discusses trying to separate out issues, voting blocs and individual voters in an attempt to define what works and what doesn't in building a coalition.
- VetGrl's Another national database: Am I overreacting? w/poll looks at another proposed national database - the Employment Eligibility Verification System - which is being proposed to track the status of U.S. workers.
- Red Wind's WaPo gets it 25% of Half Right is a blow-by-blow take down of the evolution of the Post's coverage of Gonzales' assertions about the legality - as opposed to the constitutionality - of the NSA program.
- The Apathetic Militant's Sen. Allen knows what a noose means and so do I. is one hell of a nice, short rant on George Allen, the Confederate flag and the noose.
- goverup1's Bush's War on Threats to "The System" points out that by the admission yesterday of Deputy Attorney General McNulty, domestic surveillance is NOT related only to terrorism, but to anything that weakens our "system." Scary stuff.
- wilbur's White Privilege, Social Networks, and the Traditional Media is a tremendous diary (with a great discussion going) about how the traditional media uses social capital, networking and weak/strong ties to maintain its dominance.
- Eddie C's Tying Crooked Congressmen to Threatened Reporters takes a speculative look at why both Congress and the press are coming under pressure at the same time from the executive branch.
I'm going to be looking for volunteers to do the diary rescue from Tuesday, June 6, through Tuesday, June 13, while I'm at Yearly Kos. I'm thinking if we get enough volunteers, they can break the 24-hour cycle down and just be responsible for tracking diaries during a specified time portion so the burden doesn't fall all on one person, even for a day. But I'm open to other suggestions. Let me know what you think. I'll make arrangements to have one of the admins who is NOT going to Yearly Kos front page it each night at around 9 PM PDT so that it doesn't hog a Recommended Diary slot.