Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are ItsJessMe (doing double-duty!), taylormattd, YatPundit, HansScholl and srkp23 with dadanation as editor.

The annual observance

Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day.

The rescued diaries

• Eternally hopeful, MaxMarginal pens a letter offering President Bush a recommendation as to how he could make his legacy marginally less dismal, in World AIDS Day, and Bush's Only Dim Shot at a Legacy. (ItsJessMe)
• Rimjob shares the heartbreaking story of the custody battle over nine-year-old Anna He in "Home." (taylormattd)
• zwerlst's 100-year old mother is featured again, discussing Hillary, in The Ladies of Forest Trace: This Time One-for-One. (YatPundit)
• tegrat explains why it may be counterproductive to start with an "evolving system" of healthcare reform in Mixed Private/Public Healthcare Financing = Bad Idea. (srkp23)
• Providing additional background to the diary on the same topic that has been on the rec list all day, Larry Jones brings us Hot Political News from the Frozen North: Center Left Coalition Coming? and describes the Canadian Conservative party's gigantic miscalculation that now threatens the survival of their government. (ItsJessMe)
• The subject of outsourcing led Daveparts to ask Do You Know What You Are? (YatPundit)
• WilliamJohnCox proposes a three-phase plan for saving the American automobile industry, in Making Smarter Cars Instead of Stupid Decisions. (ItsJessMe)
• In a link-rich diary, Jeff Huber cautions that our country is at risk of being run by its military, in Great White Junta. (ItsJessMe)
• In La Commune: The Battle of Ideas, gjohnsit gives us the second installment in a historical look at one of the great battles that shaped the left in Europe. (HansScholl)
• Living in Gin explains what the restoration of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine means to him in Reborn: A House of Prayer For All People. (taylormattd)
• faithfull says "Yes, we can end mountaintop removal!" and explains how in Mountain Monday: President Obama's first 100 days. (srkp23)
• As The Lost Class of 1959 Prepares for Their Fiftieth Reunion, sgoya provides the fascinating history of how the Norfolk, VA school district chose education obstructionism, closing its public schools rather than complying with desegregation laws. (ItsJessMe)

The regular extras

jotter brings us High Impact Diaries: November 30, 2008.

Eddie C has tonight's Top Comments 12-01-2008 Rust Never Sleeps Edition.

The reminder

Please use this as an Open Thread as well as your chance to promote your favorite diaries of the day. Respectful engagement is most welcome here. Please keep in mind that each Diary Rescue's daily purview extends from 3pm PST yesterday to 3pm PST today.