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The blog you know as DED Space is now The Dees Diversion, and the new url is http://thedeesdiversion.blogspot.com.



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Sorry for any inconvenience, and thank you for your continued readership and participation.



Nothing else has changed...Same content, same focus, same attitude.

Betty Friedan, a major figure in the Second Wave of American feminism, died yesterday, on her birthday, at age 85. When Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she spoke for the thousands of American women who suffered from what Friedan called "the problem that has no name"--feelings of unfulfillment and dissatisfaction from a lifetime of suppressing their own needs and desires. Friedan

Changes in progress...

Florida governor Jeb Bush wants to get rid of the federal judge who has accused the state of violating its promises regarding cleaning up the Everglades. Bush has aggressively sought the end of the 1992 cleanup court order, and has apparently taken his campaign to the Justice Department, the Department of the Interior, the EPA, and Karl Rove.

That's how much the war in Iraq is costing us, but we are somehow not able to pay to correct the rather gigantic Army Corps of Engineers mistake that has almost destroyed New Orleans.

Putting aside the obvious irony of selecting someone from Ohio to clean up the Republican Party's ethical problems, it seems like a good idea to take a look at who John Boehner, the new House Majority Leader, is. Boehner emerged, of course, in a role most had considered destined for Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri. Blunt, however, turned out to be too close to outgoing Majority Leader Tom DeLay for

If you don't read anything else about abortion rights, read Media Girl's post on Gerri Santoro, Henry Hyde and his ilk, and the re-emergence of back-alley abortions.

Welcome to factory farming. A Trenton, New Jersey police officer recently described to the Trenton City Council what he witnessed at the Trenton Halal Meat Packing Company: cows and bulls being crushed to death against a concrete wall, screaming as their bones snapped. The Humane Slaughter Act exempts religious animal slaughter interests from the requirement that animals be stunned before they

That's what a Bennett, Colorado parent said upon learning that an elementary school teacher showed first, second, and third graders a video about the opera Faust to her students. The video series, Who's Afraid of Opera? features Dame Joan Sutherland and some puppets, who have a discussion of Gounod's opera. The superintendent of schools has declared that the teacher, Tresa Waggoner, was wrong to