The crazy lady strikes again for Wednesday, August 30, 2006

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.