Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana 1976, vcmvo2, grog, shayera, YatPundit, and taylormattd as editor.

Please enjoy reading these outstanding, ranger-selected diaries:

• RLMiller discusses how there could soon be two beautiful national parks at opposite ends of the country in Healthy Minds & Bodies: New Nat'l Parks in Maine and Siskiyou. (Louisiana 1976)
• Nulwee uses a powerful scene from the film Death and the Maiden to drive home an analogy about what happened and why, at Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Air Base, and Abu Ghraib prison in "I was naked in the bright light and you couldn't see me." (vcmvo2)
• Morton Montgomery tells Kossacks why he believes that The Market is not the answer, the Market is the problem. (shayera)
• Ever wonder what goes into your final hospital bill? Marshallefrog describes how there are Economic Incentives in the Health Care System, from my own point of view, of course. (Louisiana 1976)
• While admitting his need to rant, don mikulecky also discusses his important Remote Area Medical (RAM) health-care project for the poor in Wise County, Virginia: Speaking of Health Care...It is time for my annual rant. (vcmvo2)
• Tara the Antisocial Social Worker continues her fascinating series on How a Woman Becomes a Goddess: Inanna. (shayera)
• Username4242 brings us Dinosaur of the Week--Suchomimus. And no, it's NOT one of the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. (YatPundit)
• KAMuston provides this little-known, but extremely colorful piece of US history regarding one tiny territorial acquisition in S'NOUT YOUR PROBLEM. (noddem)
• ScottyUrb describes, with some relief, President Obama's focus on education on a recent trip to Michigan in Obama In Michigan: Betting on education. (vcmvo2)
• britobserver asks, "Are soundbites killing political learning?" (shayera)

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