Open Thread and Diary Rescue

vcmvo2, Louisiana 1976, taylormattd, Got a Grip, Elise and jennyjem, with ItsJessMe editing, rescued the following diaries for your enlightenment and enjoyment:

• You won't be able to stop reading WarrenS' eloquent and moving diary about a remarkable man and the remarkable people and communities around him in My Friend Who Lived. (ItsJessMe)
• epjmcginley offers some thought-provoking musings on the end of life and what health care needs to emphasize in Death and Living Well. (Louisiana 1976)
• Queen of Wands asks, and then answers, the question Why do the media continue to make automakers appear greedy? (vcmvo2)
• Joe Trippi writes that by lifting the ban on funding stem cell research, the President gave us Science You Can Believe In, and pens his sincere thanks. (jennyjem)
• ksh101 writes a startling piece on White Supremacy: Very Real, Very Local, On McClatchy. (vcmvo2)
• jcnossiter rants that Madoff and Stanford are just the tip of the crooked iceberg in Madoff Jailed? Hold the Celebrations. (jennyjem)
• Josh Nelson shares the troublesome news of another defection to the dark side in Top Dem Strategist Leaves Politics to Lobby for Utility Industry. (Got a Grip)
• For the first installment of what will be a 4-part series that will provide us with some history, Richard Lyon focuses on The Breton Woods Conference in International Financial Regulation - Part I. (Elise)
• A Siegel reports on the latest in the coming energy revolution in Greenpeace Grossly Understates Value of Energy [R]evolution. (vcmvo2)
• tomkertes reports on a modern-day Tea Party in Maryland in The Poor Declare "Human Rights Zone" in Baltimore. (jennyjem)
• utopiandrive asks us to move beyond the fiscal conservative label that Reagan has worn all these years, and see him for the destructive force that he was in Moving Beyond the Reagan Fairytale. (vcmvo2)
• ProgressiveSouth explains how the MSM and Congress (not to mention the voting public) is being bamboozled by a flawed study that draws unsupported conclusions in EXPOSED: Bogus Business-Funded "Research" Against EFCA. (Got a Grip)
• ElsieElsie details the many factors that complicate LGBTs' search for greener (or bluer) pastures in How they hit us where we live. (jennyjem)
• Nellebracht asks how we can move Toward a democratic economy. (Elise)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: March 11, 2009.

Elise has Top Comments: OFA Conference Call.

Enjoy, and please let the diarists know what you thought of their work by commenting in their diaries. Please promote your own favorites in this open thread.