Open Thread and Diary Rescue

(Tonight's selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

This evening's Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, Got a Grip, twilight falling, srkp23, Shayera, Cordelia Lear, and joyful, with jennyjem as editor.

There's quite a list tonight, so without further ado...

The Value of Civil Discourse

• greyroadster gives sound advice about civil discourse on dkos inTowards Constructive Primary Commentary. (vcmvo2)
• InDead reckoning, dkos diarist, exmearden muses about connections and why the connections between people are so faulty lately. (vcmvo2)

Environment

• chapter1 explains why our Democratic Congresscritters must support renewable energy and not fear the inevitable Republican filibuster threat in Energy Bill: Worth the Fighting For? (twilight falling)
• retrograde offers some information about nuclear reactors in Nuclear Power: Too Slow. (shayera)
• wisecountyva shares her mother's mountains with us in an important environmental diary in My Mother’s "Morning with the Lord". (shayera)
• This fairy tale has a sad ending, as sarahlane writes that there is No More Porridge for the Bears. (joyful)

Oh! The Humanity!

• juliewolf asks an important question in The Long View: What Happens When All the Soldiers Come Home? (shayera)
• Universal gives us a devastating peek into the torment of a PTSD sufferer in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- 1st Person. (twilight falling)
• Valtin reports on Amnesty International's latest revelations about the use of torture by the US and its allies inOutrage! NATO Transfers Prisoners to Afghan Torture. (vcmvo2)
• verasoie brings us news of a scientific breakthrough that could bring help to millions and will no doubt outrage the right wing in

  Scientific breakthrough: primate cloned, stem cells derived. (Got a Grip)

Politics As Usual

• Avenging Angel highlights a bit of Republican hypocrisy in FISA, Yahoo and the GOP Double Standard on Telecom Immunity. (shayera)
• Our Founding Fathers' bleak view of human nature instilled a system of checks and balances in our government, and for good reason, explains Ralph Lopez in The Fourth Amendment: Not Such a Bad Idea. (Cordelia Lear)
• Izzzy takes on income inequality and the "fuss" surrounding it in Mobility and Poo-Flinging at the Wall Street Journal. (Cordelia Lear)
• TakeBackTheHouse updates us on some of the important goings-on among the Colorado political activists in Drinking Liberally with McJoan. (twillight falling)
• New diarist Coach Jay provokes thought as to how we use language to describe ourselves and our political views in I am a conservative. (Got a Grip)

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