Daily Kos: Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Open Thread and Diary Rescue

by SusanG

Mon Sep 17, 2007 at 08:15:46 PM PDT

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

This evening's Rescue Rangers are nyc in exile, twilight falling (graciously covering a double shift), fatbyjhnsn, Cordelia Lear, grog, and srkp23. joyful and Shayera are squashed together in the Editor's chair!

Tonight's diaries cover a variety of interesting issues with perspective and analysis not offered by the Traditional Media:

Changes due to global warming are threatening your next glass of wine. A Siegel has the story in Sipping our way to a warmer world: Wine and Global Warming. (twilight falling)

The connection between declining interest rates, the national debt, globalization and the trade deficit is succinctly covered by New Deal democrat in Bankruptcy 2015 (Part II). (grog)

Whether or not you agree with what an academic researcher says, dlcox1958 believes it is their colleagues — via discourse and the peer review process — who should determine the merits of his/her arguments, not political considerations. Exit Chemerinsky, Enter Larry Summers: more musings on academic freedom (with poll) makes the case. (twilight falling)

MTmofo recounts the last day he spent with his son before his son was sent to Iraq in I love you. I’ll see ya later. (twilight falling)

Candidate Willard "speaketh with forked tongue." Romney to UN: Indict Iran's Ahmadinejad brought to you by Avenging Angel. (Cordelia Lear)

David Brin summarizes best: The "Bush Administration...has squandered and spoiled something both pragmatic and precious -- an appearance of invincibility [of the American military] that helped to keep the peace, better than whole divisions." Don't miss The Real War of G.W. Bush – Against the U.S. Military (part One). (twilight falling)

The shenanigans of our "valued ally" Pakistan seem to constantly slip under the radar. In an effort to fill in the gaps, Mash offers up a snapshot of Pakistan’s very own military industrial complex in The Plundering Of Pakistan. (nyc in exile)

Gardens on rooftops and living buildings that sustain themselves...sound like a sci-fi fantasy? Not so, says A Siegel -- it’s already happening. This wave of the future is just about here, and you can read about it in the fascinating Energy COOL: Vertical Urban Gardening. (twilight falling)