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)
sardonyx has tonight's Top Comments: Brevity Edition.
Enjoy, and please promote your own favorite diaries in this open thread.
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