Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are srkp23, HansScholl, ItsJessMe, grog, taylormattd, vcmvo2, and Elise as editor.

The diaries up for rescue tonight are:

• Mrs W offers concrete suggestions for how to help a struggling school, in A song of six-pence and toilet paper: how to help an economy-crushed school. (ItsJessMe)
• Bcgntn pays tribute to her deceased mother, thanking her for giving the gift of empathy, in A Day That Lives In Infamy. (ItsJessMe)
• Avenging Angel examines the utter failure of so-called "abstinence education" among other reasons as to why Red States Show Highest Teen Birth Rates. (grog)
• bb123 gives a few hints for resume readers and interviewers, in It's Bad Out There: Help Make it Less So. (ItsJessMe)
• rperks attended today's Senate hearing on the mess in Tennessee and provides this report in Sen. Boxer Jabs TVA Over Coal Ash Spill. (grog)
• Kevin Myles provides a nice summary of a progressive bill up for a vote in Congress and describes what we can do to help get it passed in Action Alert - Congress to vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay and the Paycheck Fairness act. (taylormattd)
• Oooh, pretty graphs...that explain things. Watch as dreaminonempty lays out the leftward shift of the House in Dems Move Left: Political Chromatography in the House. (grog)
• OrangeClouds115 serves up an assortment of links in Food News Roundup (...Oops, Did I Say Roundup?) (srkp23)
• Dragon5616 finishes his interesting and well-researched historical series and speculates about The Inaugural Address, Part 5: What will Obama say? (HansScholl)
• Valtin describes How the U.S. Army's Field Manual Codified Torture - - and Still Does. (vcmvo2)
• Winter Rabbit tells a shameful, outrageous tale of Native American "Relocation" in America's West Bank (Edited and New Info.) (srkp23)

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