The crazy lady strikes again

Jemmie211 talked about the very young kitten (she implied that the kitten she found was perhaps a few days old when she found said kitty) she'd found in her neighborhood. I left a comment on her blog Opinionated Bitch about my real-life cat Ali (the inspiration for Garfield's fictional friend Ali), about how Ali had roundworms when we found her. These roundworms stunted her growth so that she was much smaller than Garfield and Michael, even though she was about the same age as our current two... Sign in to see full entry.

The details escape me - I'll have to look them up - but a Chicago restaurant did receive a warning about serving foie gras this week. As I stated in my earlier entry (Rabbit season - no, goose season), Chicago authorities only become involved if someone issues a complaint about a restaurant serving foie gras, and apparently, someone did complain about this restaurant's having that dish on its menu. The restaurant's owners were quoted as saying that foie gras remains on the menu because they... Sign in to see full entry.

The figure listed in the title is apparently the number of minutes in a calendar year - 525,600 periods of sixty seconds each. I learned this from the song Seasons of Love from the musical Rent. (It's a catchy tune, by the way; I like the Rent soundtrack generally, but this one is the catchiest Broadway tune I've heard in years.) The point implied in Seasons of Love is that we are all granted 525,600 minutes per year; what do we do with them? Do we waste them, or do we spend them on important... Sign in to see full entry.

This has been something which has genuinely bothered me for some time. According to the Sun-Times series I read over the weekend (I'll provide a link to that, perhaps in a later entry), the Chicago area is one of the few areas of the nation which is not solidly Republican, at least not in our Protestant white evangelical population. I remember that Protestant conservatives such as Chuck Colson have historically dominated the Christian airwaves, too. In the rest of the nation, I understand that... Sign in to see full entry.

After I wrote my last entry, I noticed that my page-view count for this blog went way up - at a time of day that is normally as slow as blackstrap molasses is in January. This ties in directly with a theory that my husband mentioned just this morning. He theorized that perhaps, with the wee ones back to school this week (at least in America), my hit counts would climb through the roof. I do hope he's right; we could surely use every penny we can get our hands on right now, even the meager... Sign in to see full entry.

I've been following news coverage of the Jeffs case - Mr. Jeffs is the fellow that was arrested for arranging polygamous "plural marriages" between underage girls and adult men who were often already legally married to someone - and I noticed something that proved my point. Granted, the media people doing these stories weren't really trying to prove my point, but they did, nonetheless. I've probably made readers of this blog thoroughly sick of my constant harping on women's dress, specifically... Sign in to see full entry.

A Maryland electrician won a contest to blow up the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, in an area near Washington, DC known as the Capital Beltway. Apparently, this bridge had become well-known for causing bottlenecks; when one had to cross the bridge, one went from an eight-lane highway to a six-lane highway, and the bridge was raised frequently to allow boat traffic to cross under it. This caused no end of frustration for Beltway commuters who needed to get to work. The electrician who won the contest to... Sign in to see full entry.

This afternoon, I discovered something about the Total Living Network, which I mentioned in passing yesterday. I had mentioned in one of yesterday's entries that Jerry Rose, the president of the organization operating this Chicagoland cable network, had once been a fierce advocate of the colon-cleansing products produced by an alternative-medicine company called Kylea. This decision on his part seemed to me to be a direct result of his own experiences with colon cancer many years ago; many... Sign in to see full entry.

Yes, the title seems somewhat innocuous, perhaps leading a reader to believe someone got arrested solely for marrying one woman after another, divorcing the previous spouse before marrying again. I'm not talking about that type of person. Instead, I'm talking about Warren Jeffs, the leader of a Mormon cult which still adheres to the practice of polygamy. (The mainstream Mormon church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, renounced polygamy in the late 19th century, during Utah's... Sign in to see full entry.

Because Hurricane Katrina made landfall one year ago on this date, the morning news programs have been saturated with coverage of how Gulf Coast residents are doing one year later. Even Oprah Winfrey is getting into the act, by doing a show on what her Angel Network is doing for Houston-area Katrina survivors (people who relocated to Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina), in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity. The CBS morning-news program The Early Show had features which were about... Sign in to see full entry.