Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Ranger krewe consists of Louisiana 1976, vcmvo2, grog, shayera, dadanation, and ybruti. YatPundit is behind the wheel of the Editmobile, with the top down as we cruise along Lake Pontchartrain on a muggy New Orleans summer night.

The diaries this great group of Rangers have recommended to you this evening represent some of the best writing DailyKos has to offer. Be sure to subscribe to these diarists so you can catch their future offerings to the community.

The Rescues

• In Man Walks the Moon Again... Starting Thursday tworoads reminisces about why and how we "chose to go to the moon" with a celebration of the 40th anniversary. (vcmvo2)
• zizi has some personal reflections on the President's trip to Africa in From Ghana: Analysis of Obama Visit (Part 2). (shayera)
• Jason Rosenbaum presents a concise and useful summary of The Health Reform Debate - Myths vs. Facts. (ybruti)
• dancewater highlights a chilling and deplorable reality of war in WWB: Children detained and tortured. (dadanation)
• Here's an activity that can help while away a long summer weekend with the kids. leftyparent recommends an entertaining, vocabulary-expanding game in Balderdash & Circles of Equals and adds that lessons learned playing it can be applied to everyday life. (Louisiana 1976)
• Kyle Brady updates us on something long overdue to happen: The Upcoming Regulation of American Telcos. (grog)
• nemokc discusses the importance of spies in Pelosi, Panetta & "THE ART OF WAR". (ybruti)
• Arthur Wolf describes a yearly celebration of Woody Guthrie's birthday in Oklahoma in From California to the New York Islands. (ybruti)
• denis diderot reports More USDA Doubletalk on E. coli & Swift Meat Recall. (ybruti)
• anonymousisawoman expresses the reasons behind her dissatisfaction with the National Press in Wanted: A Good Newspaper in the Washington, DC Metro Area. (vcmvo2)
• ZachPruckowski shares some snark and tell us Things I Learned Watching The News. (shayera)

jotter whips up High Impact Diaries: July 12, 2009.

virgomusic sails in with Top Comments - Tall Ships Edition.

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