Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are a synthetic cubist, jlms qkw, HansScholl, Got a Grip, sunspark says, and shayera, with watercarrier4diogenes at the editor's desk.

The Rangers have sifted and sorted through a ton of diaries to bring you these 9 great examples of the excellent writing and breadth of subjects that Teh Orange has become known for.

• danps shares a revealing vignette on the reach of Cheney's duplicity in Preparing the Ground. (HansScholl)
• Avenging Angel analyzes the malignant problem within the GOP as he examines The Republicans' Old Black Magic. (sunspark says)
• AaronBa wonders about the bubbles created around Mayor Bloomberg and our public officials, and the money wasted to create and perpetuate them in Priorities and People. (HansScholl)
• juliewolf explains why Democrats need to stand firm and not cowtow to the GOP out of deference or habit in Asch and Conformity: some examples. (sunspark says)
• FrankCornish was inspired by a book, which led him on My Secular Pilgrimage. (shayera)
• From Austria and Germany in the aftermath of WWII, through misguided urban renewal in Florida, to a contemporary housing code violation in New Hampshire, hannah explains Why I Cannot Be Dispassionate in the face of bureaucratic efforts to unhouse those most vulnerable in our society. (HansScholl)
• In La Commune: The Rise Of The Proletariat, gjohnsit reminds us of a time and place, unlike our own, in which the left wing had both passion and imagination. (a synthetic cubist)
• At the end of an exhausting day, exmearden reflects on the limits of her own wisdom and experience in the midst of a late night call for help from her adult daughter in American mouth. (HansScholl)
• Donna O tells a sweet story of a To Dream of Squirrels. (sunspark says)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: January 2, 2008, while carolita brings us Top Comments 1-3-09 -- Moran-Speak Edition.

Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diaries in this open thread (even if you're the author! Here's where that's actually appreciated). And, of course, since it's an open thread, PLAY NICE, OK? 8^)