Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are Patriot Daily, srkp23 (extra thanks for extra hours), ezdidit, Got A Grip, smokeymonkey and nyc in exile with Avila as editor.

Up for rescue tonight, we have fourteen diaries that we enjoyed and think you will, too. Please read them, comment in them and show the diarists some love.

• "Safety takes a backseat to profit. GOP-style..." in Canada! says Andrew M, with proof of politicization in The Firing of Linda Keen: Tories cribbing from the GOP playbook? (ezdidit)
• Ana Maria asks how can there be recovery without affordable insurance in Katrina Families, Dead Flowers, and Big Insurance. (Patriot Daily)
• em dash brings us another attempt to institute bad science as social policy with No love for zygotes, with bonus poem. (smokeymonkey)
• don mikulecky raises the issue of an ideological litmus test in The ouster of a University president: Shame on all of them! (Patriot Daily)
• A Tale of Two Engineers: Why Labor Rights don't matter, until the moment they do is the personal story of try democracy and why labor unions matter. (smokeymonkey)
• LtdEdishn provides a glimpse of home-grown, deregulated or under-regulated corporate Terroristic Consumer Products. (Patriot Daily)
• SocProf offers up a detailed primer in Globalization - Basic Sociological Introduction. (srkp23)
• A Siegel is talking to you, Senator Boxer, and educating untold others, in Smart Politics! Reason 327 to Fix or Ditch Lieberman-Warner. (srkp23)
• Mark H introduces us to the "rarest color morph" in Marine Life Series: Albino Rock Crab. (Patriot Daily)
• mossbackfarm tells us of two companies trying to quietly build natural gas pipelines in Oregon to avoid public backlash and the experiences of others who've had to endure such invasions in other settings in LNG pipelines in Oregon. (Got a Grip)
• lineatus offers a wonderful virtual birding trip to California in Dawn Chorus Birdblog: Panoche Valley. (ezdidit)
• Taurus Rising presents poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca in Literary Queer. (srkp23)
• KAMuston brings us news your won't find in the MSM (with the possible exception of Keith Olbermann's "Oddball" segment) in WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS. (Got a Grip)
• high uintas shares a moving personal reflection with lessons for us all in Race, Gender, and a Funeral. (srkp23)

carolita has Top Comments 2-16-08: Armadillo Edition.

Enjoy, and please promote your own favorite diaries in this open thread.