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Religious frenzy

My previous post on humanist ritual-making has generated a firestorm of comments, including several from Dan, a fellow New Mexican who often comments critically on my political posts, and who has now weighed in on the Catholic Church. Dan writes:
The whole original point of my post, which was a response to Moralia’s post lambasting […]

Posted 01 January 2009 † Brigette Russell § Religion ‡ Comments (36) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Of plows and politics

A couple thousand years ago, give or take, the Romans turned to retired consul Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus when a war with their neighbors the Aequi turned particularly ugly. Cincinnatus, who was plowing his field when the senators found him, washed off the dirt, put on his toga, and returned to Rome. Once the […]

Posted 03 November 2008 † Brigette Russell § Politics ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Look who’s reading

When you blog, you never know who’s reading, unless they comment, and most don’t, since the number of comments on my site is a microscopic fraction of the number of hits I get each day. A friend from an e-mail list mentioned today that she knew how I felt about car DVD players since […]

Posted 05 July 2008 † Brigette Russell § Personal ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Fourth of July miscellany

We’ve driven past the Glorieta, NM, battlefield memorial scores (if not hundreds) of times, but today we finally stopped. It’s a makeshift memorial, on private property and maintained by the owner, who has been kind enough to put in nice, flat trails and even to make little makeshift concrete seats and benches under some […]

Posted 04 July 2008 † Brigette Russell § New Mexico § Personal § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

No more nurseries?

What do you mean you don’t HAVE a nursery?????
This was my dumbfounded response when I toured the maternity ward (the only one in Santa Fe) where I’ll be delivering next month. The hospital where I had my other three children had one, and since all my deliveries were c-section and I wasn’t […]

Posted 07 June 2008 † Brigette Russell § Childbirth § Personal ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

DNA explodes Greek myth about women - or maybe NOT

The Guardian’s headline reads, “DNA explodes Greek myth about women,” but after reading the story, I’m not particularly impressed by the magnitude of the explosion.
In the 1870s Heinrich Schliemann excavated the Bronze Age tombs of Mycenae, which contained 35 bodies and a great deal of treasure, including the gold funerary mask pictured at left. […]

Posted 04 June 2008 † Brigette Russell § ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , , , ,