Up for rescue tonight:
- lapin's Port of Olympia: Anti-Iraq War Protest Continues gives a report and pictures from the Olympia protest.
- npbeachfun's Nowhere for Volunteers to go... thanks but no thanks FEMA points to stories about FEMA shutting down volunteer housing facilities in the Gulf region when so much work still needs to be done.
- Cogitator's Politics, Poverty, Religion and the debasement of Jesus mines the New Testament for the financial views of Jesus and his early Christian followers and finds out - surprise! - it doesn't quite square with conservative values.
- Heresiarch514's How Republicans Discipline Uppity Democrats compares the rhetoric used against the Democratic Party - "shrill," "hysterical," etc. - to that of the language used when men dismiss women.
- john07801's Republican Anger discusses strategies to overcome the mindless Republican fear-mongering propagated by the right-wing noise machine.
- Earwicker's Proclamation of Wilbur Mills Day is terrific snark bewailing the good old days of drunken-revelry-in-the-fountain misbehavior instead of the current types of corruption.
- exmearden's How are the Mighty Fallen is a beautifully written personal essay about a Democratic family's intersection of the personal and political, spanning generations. Just sensational and in need of a LOT more attention.
- americandad's On dat English hooey: Start wit me last, hey is a great riff on the English-only mania that's got everyone's knickers in a twist ... oops, wait ... that may be the "wrong" English, eh?
- PlantingLiberally's The Liberal's Guide to Your City - welcoming newcomers and bolstering local progressive groups floats the terrific idea of creating a guide to individual cities for semi-transient populations (like college students) and people who are just relocating, in order to get them tied in to a local liberal network.
- cyberotter's Bloggers Against Torture Month is a primer on the Geneva Conventions, our serial violations and what blogs are organizing to do about it.
- greggish's Strip-mining the Grassroots (pt 5): Grassroots Campaigns, Inc's canvassing model is the fifth installment looking at old ways and new ways of grassroots campaigning. For earlier installments, check here.
- Redshift's "Unity '08"'s Weird Disconnect offers the insightful critique that the Unity '08 project has basically adopted the traditional Democratic Party agenda - and is simply renaming it and fighting the lefty straw man created by the right-wing.
- JuliaAnn's One Big Corporation: Haditha meets the Aspens makes an interesting connection between a Fox News "security expert" interviewee who speculated that the Iraqis killed the civilians in Haditha and framed the Marines ... and the supposed security expert's company, which has been involved in dirty dealings for 20 years. Excellent research on display here - truly a must read.
Seven days to Yearly Kos! One freaking week! Yay!
Ahem ... add your favorites from the day in comments below and feel free to use as an open thread.