Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana1976, ItsJessMe, Yatpundit, Grog, HansScholl, and joyful, with shayera editing.

• Giving an impassioned please for how we can create a better work environment and a better paycheck for women (really, for everyone), Elise advocates for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, in Feminisms: Women and Work (Action). (ItsJessMe)
• It hurts to learn that hard-working guys like Marcus Tullius get No breaks. (joyful)
• davidkc argues that as the government has been bailing out banks and the auto industry has been calling for a bail-out, an Ohio school district needs such help in School district submits request for TARP bailout money. (Louisiana 1976)
• The Arse takes a look at problems with the 1996 welfare reform act in the context of the current recession, in The Safety Net Will Not Catch the Poor This Time. (grog)
• China's food supply "safe" says U.S. Agriculture Secretary, but Deep Harm greets the news with skepticism. (joyful)
• Valtin gives a fascinating account of Dr. Joost Meerloo, a 1940s Dutch psychoanalyst who was probably very involved with U.S. intelligence, and advocates for the immediate closing of all Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) schools in Whence Torture? A SERE Critic, Circa 1956. (ItsJessMe)
• arthura tells how as the Indian subcontinent teeters on the brink of catching fire, Condi has been playing the piano in With Diplomacy, this is an Opportunity re Pakistan. (Louisiana 1976)
• illuminaupolis shares the travails of being a small business owner in the non-critical floral business in today's economy, in There's No Business... (ItsJessMe)
• Jeff Huber discusses "Long Bill Kristol" and his desire to fight piracy in Shiver Me Neocons. (YatPundit)

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