Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Today, vcmvo2, taylormattd, grog, jennyjem, srkp23 and ItsJessMe, who also edited, combed through lots of diaries to find this powerful list. Today’s rescued diaries are a wonderful representation of the breadth and depth our community offers.
- 95-year-old diarist Charlotte Lucas continues an excellent first-person narrative about the lead-up to WWII in Three Score And Ten Years Ago; Part Two. (jennyjem)
- BruceMcF writes the comprehensive guide to High Speed Rail in Sunday Train: The Appalachian Hub, Part 1. (vcmvo2)
- Crashing Vor suggests that we run, not walk, to buy Dave Eggers’ new book about the life and times of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, hero of Katrina, victim of the Bush government’s fear: The Painter, the Storm and the Memo. (ItsJessMe)
- jlynne describes how a disabled woman in her community put together a non-profit organization called Angel Light, Inc in order to help the homeless in There Be Angels. (vcmvo2)
- Sue Sturgis reports that the EPA has identified double the amount of coal ash dumps sites than previously reported, and that’s the good news, in Power companies withhold critical coal ash dump data. (jennyjem)
- veritas curat initiates a discussion on how in ancient forests all over the globe, indigenous cultures are under attack by encroaching development: The Price of Success. (taylormattd)
- Detroit Mark defies the right’s attempt to claim that liberalism has died in They Want To Bury Us With Teddy. (vcmvo2)
- Brace yourself, as dancewater brings us another installment of What War Brings: rape and sexual torture. (jennyjem)
- chippens describes the “joys” of participating in the free market system, in My Health Care Story. (ItsJessMe)
- rperks reports on the problems of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s paying “cold hard cash to swallow its coal hard trash” in TVA Ash Holes. (srkp23)
- In Marine Life Series: Expat Sargasso Community Mark H describes some of the seventy species that live in this “floating oasis.” (vcmvo2)
jotter has High Impact Diaries: August 30, 2009 and virgomusic has Top Comments – Large Pizza Edition.
Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diaries in this open thread.
