Span, a Chicago communications design company, came up with “copi.” It’s an abbreviated wordplay on “copious” — a reference to the booming populations of bighead, silver, grass and black carp in the U.S. heartland.
Anyway they're invading — so let's eat them.
“You go to any diner in America, and nobody’s talking about this,” said Dave Carney, a national Republican strategist based in New Hampshire.
Maybe it's the allure of flannel shirts and John Deere hats. I've downed a lot of truck-stop coffee over the years and I'm pretty sure it's not that. Gravy though, that might be it. Or grits.
Anyway, any time one of those big-city news people wants to know about America they head for a diner, usually in the Midwest, preferably in the near Midwest, Pennsylvania seems about right — out of town but not too scary.
And nobody's talking about this.
Ohio State has successfully trademarked the word “THE” after applying to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
In this case "experts" is completely unnecessary. "Some people" or "a random guy on Twitter" or just plain "I" would be equally informative.
"Tombstone had much more restrictive laws on carrying guns in public in the 1880s than it has today,” says Adam Winkler, a professor and specialist in American constitutional law at UCLA School of Law. “Today, you're allowed to carry a gun without a license or permit on Tombstone streets. Back in the 1880s, you weren't.” Same goes for most of the New West, to varying degrees, in the once-rowdy frontier towns of Nevada, Kansas, Montana, and South Dakota.
That from Smithsonian Magazine.
This from the Supremes (6-3):
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public.
… in many ways serves as the vanguard of what is to come as the space agency and US companies ramp up exploration and development of the Moon.
Although…think about it…the moon would be an excellent place for a landfill, wouldn't it? All those craters just sitting there, doing nothing.
(I like the multicolored idea but they're just various shades of tan — no red ones or blue ones or anything like that. Multicoloredish,)
An outage of Cloudflare's servers caused a slew of websites and services to go down today, including big names such as Discord, DoorDash, and League of Legends.According to Cloudflare, "Eyeballs attempting to reach Cloudflare sites in impacted regions will observe 500 errors."
"In 2020, generics represented 88% of Medicare prescriptions but only 19% of spending, according to a recent report by the board of trustees that oversees Medicare’s financial operations."
[Medicare spent about $115.6 billion on prescription drugs last year, says this article in the Wall Street Journal.]
Behind the Republican governor, it took three people to hold a live, 10-foot (3-meter) female python as a demonstration. The snakes have virtually no natural enemies in the Everglades and have decimated native populations of mammals, birds and other reptiles.And who knows? Maybe you.
