Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are YatPundit, ItsJessMe, sunspark says, dadanation, a synthetic cubist, srkp23, and taylormattd as editor.

Please enjoy reading these outstanding, ranger-selected diaries:

• PapaChach returns with another poignant musing on lost love, family and America, in 4th of July, Saturday Night (Melancholy USA). (ItsJessMe)
• Dburn whipped up some excellent code to help Whip a Senator (Widget). (srkp23)
• Stwriley offers analysis on what the N. Koreans are up to in North Korea: Rattling the SCUD saber for ? (YatPundit)
• plawyerpants bears shocking news about Guantanamo, where, they tell us, Everything is just peachy. (a synthetic cubist)
• arodb writes about trying to be impartial while taking an active role in reporting a local scandal that is receiving national attention: Busby fundraising fracas-Blogging meets real world. (ItsJessMe)
• citisven muses on the promise and risk of the mainstreaming of "green" in Green!?!?!? (srkp23)
• jimstaro discusses an important but under-reported aspect of our economic collapse in Johnny & Jane Marchin Home to........ (sunspark says)
• Troubadour shares nine years' worth of Fond Memories of Trolling A Republican Site. (ItsJessMe)
• wide eyed lib continues to educate with great photographs and prose in Free Food: Foraging Fruit for the Fourth. (srkp23)
• When Areopagitica writes How to kill a zombie, it's not the undead of whom the title refers. Nope, it's all about "hot money" and our banking system. (dadanation)
• sunspark says muses on how, when it comes to pop music, we never can say goodbye: letting go of our past. (a synthetic cubist)
• mbayrob contemplates how views on patriotism have changed since Vietnam and wants liberals and progressives to "take patriotism back" from the Red Coats who have trivialized love of country, and made it something contemptible: Patriotism With A Liberal Heart. (ItsJessMe)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: July 4, 2009 and Week's High Impact Diaries June 27 - July 3, 2009.

va dare has Top Comments 7.5.09 - I'm Back! Catching Up Edition.

Please feel free to promote your favorite diaries in this open thread.