tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36624332009-04-15T06:37:01.334-05:00Dianenoreply@blogger.comBlogger3607125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662433.post-11986179204348324742007-06-01T08:14:00.000-05:002008-12-09T01:02:41.981-06:00

We're all packed and ready to go to our new home at Women Who Serve, and we're even taking those pesky kittens with us. We hope you continue to visit us on Fridays, and who knows? Maybe you'll even get into women's pro tennis--it's exciting! We loved blogging for you at The Dees Diversion, and we hope to see you at least once a week at our new place.

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I have been publishing The Dees Diversion (formerly known as DED Space) for four years and ten months--five years, for all practical purposes. I have also been blogging for Mother Jones' MoJo Blog for over a year and nine months. That is a lot of blogging, and the time has come for me to cut back. After this week, The Dees Diversion will no longer be published. There are several reasons I made

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Before September 11, 2001, the song "God Bless America" was played in Yankee Stadium only on holidays. But since mid-October of 2001, it has been played before the bottom of the seventh inning at every game. It seems like that would be punishment enough, but George Steinbrenner has taken the punishment a step further: While the song is being played, fans are not allowed to leave their seats.(

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Six customs inspectors at Orlando Sanford International Airpot say that, in 2005, they were told by their supervisors to falsify information they were supposed to have gathered during an inspection for plant and animal contraband. The passengers in question were never stopped and their bags were not inspected. The inspectors said they were told to lie because the airport was "busy."Welcome to the

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C. 'En Evant' is a French antique canna that dates back to 1914. It is just the sort of canna that the Victorians were crazy for, and I like it too.

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Svetlana Kuznetsova--can she finally win the French Open?Jelena Jankovic may have burned herself out of a chance to beat Henin and win at Roland GarrosQualifying for the French Open is currently in progress, and, as always, my favorite Grand Slam is the most puzzling to figure out. That's because it is played on red clay, and red clay tends to diffuse power. Or, as I like to put it, people play

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Once again, a poll shows that almost one-third of Americans believe that the Bible is the word of God and that every word is to be taken literally. Of those who do not believe the Bible's contents are to be taken literally, the majority believe that the book is nevertheless the actual word of God. Not surprisingly, belief in the literal meaning of the Bible is highest among those with the lowest

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Sometimes Ziggy just can't watch the whole movie.

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Last November, someone set fire to the central wing of a high school in Jena, Louisiana. Then white students beat up a black student because he went to their party. Soon after that, a white adolescent pulled a shotgun on three black adolescents in a convenience store, and then four black students jumped a white student as he came out of the school gym. Following that incident, in which the

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A few days ago, George W. Bush referred to the investigation of Attorney General Gonzales as "the reason the American people lose faith in the system" (not an exact quote). What he was saying was that the evil people calling out Gonzales for possible (likely) wrong-doing have stirred things up and caused Americans to doubt their own government.From a moral standpoint, his statement is outrageous.

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Former Tennessee senator, stunningly bad actor and possible presidential candidate Fred Thompson has seen fit to shut down his political action committee. The PAC in question has raised $66,700 for election campaigns and committees in the four years it has been in existence. It has also paid $178,000 in consulting fees to Daniel Thompson Associates.(Continue reading at MoJo Blog)

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It doesn't really surprise me that much that a state that would elect a sex criminal to be its governor would also decline to prosecute gang-rapists. A group of college baseball players in San Jose took turns raping a drunk 17-year girl. DNA samples have been obtained. There is an eyewitness. But the Santa Clara DA's office says there isn't enough evidence to charge the perpetrators."From the

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On Saturday, ethically challenged former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave the commencement address at Liberty University, the school founded by Jerry Falwell. This was the second time the former speaker has delivered the Liberty commencement address. In his speech, Gingrich quoted Bible verses and warned graduates against "the growing culture of radical secularism."(Continue reading at MoJo Blog)

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Of all we've done for the cause of women's rights in Afghanistan.

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There are still enough cool days for the sisters to get in some snuggling on the sofa

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Especially the disgusting ones.

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A few years ago, when Bush on the Couch was published by psychiatrist Justin A. Frank, his publicist invited me to review it. I declined on ethical grounds. Frank, having never met George W. Bush, is not qualified to diagnose him, despite his using the technique of "applied psychoanalysis" which permits the psychological analysis of a public figure, but which--in my opinion--shoud be limited to

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You have to hide from everyone the fact that you find the divine in nature, but you can put bumper stickers on your car advertising that your religion condemns your family members, neighbors and co-workers, and that you wish to suppress women and members of the LGBT community.

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Though many of us (and especially those of us with brains who live in Louisiana) cannot help but be grateful to Larry Flynt for exposing the hypocrisy of right-wing womanizer Bob Livingston, there has never been any doubt in my mind as to Flynt's character: He is a vicious, hateful bigot who has caused untold amounts of damage to women, people of color and members of the LBGT community.But Duke

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From New Orleans...

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Tim Coil is a Gulf War veteran with PTSD. In early March, he and his wife visited the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library in Ohio so that his wife, Yvette, could study for a test and he could do some reading. While they were there, they saw two military recruiters approaching potential elistees in a nearby room. Yvette Coil wrote some messages on 3x5 cards: "Don't fall for it! Military recruiters

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In After Atalanta, Ken talks about a new version of "I'm not a feminist, but--", which she calls "I am a feminist, but--" Good stuff.

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Obviously, for the sins of hating women and homosexuals, and for not using the brain he was given at birth.

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"Only in a hopelessly Puritan country like America could people actually think that a bad work of art is redeemed by its content."--Joseph S. Salemi, in an essay in The New Formalist.

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"I think lots want to watch, you know, girls dressed in a cute way. I think fashion has helped us a lot, people watch for that too."--WTA world number 7 Nicole Vaidisova

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