Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana 1976, Avila, BentLiberal, dopper0189, YatPundit, and jlms qkw, with watercarrier4diogenes at the Editor's desk.

Tonight's diaries cover a variety of interesting issues not covered by the 'traditional media' (tm Kos) with the kind of research, perspective and analysis we see here every day.

• Tributes should be for the living. jhwvertigo gives his personal take on the Senator's career in Ted Kennedy: Public Servant. (BentLiberal)
• A major constitutional change is suggested by tullyccro in A Popular Veto: How would it work and why do we need it? (YatPundit)
• FundaMental Transformation tells Kossacks about what has been happening to the imaginary boundary between the "people inside the tv" and the "people outside the tv" in The Fourth Wall is comin' down, y'all (aka Media Wars). (Louisiana 1976)
• Joshua Holland writes that workers are penalized in the overwhelming majority of immigration raids, while employers often get away with exploitation, in Enforcement on Steroids: Homeland Security's Emerging Immigration Police State. (BentLiberal)
• iampunha offers insight into hate crimes legislation via a historical context in May 21, 1979: Manslaughter, not murder, for Dan White. (YatPundit)
• First time diarist Shocko from Seattle takes us on a road trip, where the state of our roads mirrors the state of our union in Blue Highways. (dopper0189)
• perky mcjuggs shares the news of expanded recognition of human rights in CA Assembly passes AB2567: Harvey Milk Day. (jlms qkw)
• DrSteveB advances the radical notion that enemies divided by bitter disagreement need to negotiate with one another, in Talking With Enemies: Official Israeli - Syria Talks Begin. (BentLiberal)

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