Riding the Diary Rescue streetcar tonight are blank frank, HoosierDeb, ItsJessMe, srkp23, and jlms qkw, with YatPundit in the motorman's chair on an unseasonably-warm New Orleans night.

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The Rescues:

• Asking What Can a Poor Mom Do? self-proclaimed "Boulder hippie" Only Needs a Beat ties together rock music, a broken ankle, John Donne, the parts of her that influence Dick Cheney and next year's midterm elections as she finds her answer: "to work hard to bring out the best in other people". (ItsJessMe)
• For this self-described "geek world" article, fake consultant combines rare earth elements, China, and more in On Stimulating The Future, Or, "It's The Ytterbium, Stupid!" (jlms qkw)
• In a short-and-sweet diary, MoralDK lives up to his or her moniker and shows us there's more to being a progressive than signing petitions and emailing congresspeople. There's a great example for all of us in Sleeping Bags For The Homeless - Detroit '09. (Blank Frank)
• dsteffen shares the story of this tragedy in How Regulation came to be: Our Lady of the Angels. (jlms qkw)
• Using the state of Massachusetts as a point of comparison, Provencalkid offers a delightful description of the site of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, in Going to Copenhagen? A Guide For the (Happily) Perplexed. (ItsJessMe)
• Seneca Doane illustrates the drama in Washington, D.C. in Reid's Role is to Deceive and Betray ... Us? Them? Both? (jlms qkw)
• Inoljt dives into the data from the Keystone state in Analyzing Swing States: Pennsylvania, Part 2.5. (jlms qkw)

jotter has a weekend two-fer: High Impact Diaries: November 28, 2009 and High Impact Diaries: November 21-24, 2009.

sardonyx brings us Top Comments: Editing Edition.

Please join the Diary Rescue krewe this evening by suggesting your own rescues in this Open Thread.