Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Diary Rescue is brought to you by srkp23, ItsJessMe, vcmvo2, jlms qkw, dadanation, and BentLiberal with vcmvo2 editing.

The diaries up for rescue are:

• DanK stresses the need for presidents to take control of wartime decision-making in his excellent review of Gordon Goldstein‘s book: Required Reading at the White House. (BentLiberal)
• Talk about karma -- Christian Dem in NC reports that last summer's infamous Valley Swim Club files for bankruptcy. (dadanation)
• wide eyed lib continues her wonderful and informative series in Free Food: Foraging by Genus. (vcmvo2)
• A Siegel's diary Energy COOL: Portable Schooling Gone Green is chock full of great links and great analyses. (dadanation)
• route66 shares impressions of Al Gore's appearance in Florida in Of Rock Stars, Wet Teabags, Walls and Irony. (jlms qkw)
• jpmassar luckily is keeping score: Equal Rights: 3 Bigots: 2. (dadanation)
• Displaying a proper balance between clarity of thought and mocking of Republicans, Vyan gives us the hard-hitting Gee, Oh, Hold your Pee: Why the Torture won't matter in 9-11 Trials! (BentLiberal)
• Orinoco illustrates a technique for long division in Fundamental Understanding of Mathematics XXXIX. (jlms qkw)
• In Weekend Science: The size of Earth, and stuffed full of Oxygen AKMask explains all about earth-like stars: white dwarves. (vcmvo2)

jotter has yesterday's High Impact Diaries: November 14, 2009 as well as the Week's High Impact Diaries: November 7-13, 2009.

emeraldmaiden brings tonight's Top Comments 11/15/09 - Desert Forage.

Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diaries from the past twenty-four hours in this Open Thread!