Last night, somewhere in Kansas, the Arizona Wildcats played the Kansas State Wildcats in a game of football. Kansas State won handily.
This evening Georgia will play the Kentucky Wildcats while the Northwestern Wildcats play Eastern Illinois.
Abilene Christian, Bethune-Cookman, Davidson, New Hampshire, Villanova, and Weber State teams are also named Wildcats.Walking around with something in your ear has become so completely normalized—even cool!—that medical professionals believe people who might not wear a hearing aid will feel perfectly comfortable popping in AirPods.
Being the worst at something is not what we strive for, but it happens. As Chicagoans, we at least should be used to it by now. We like to think of ourselves as the greatest city in the world while acknowledging in hushed tones we also are the worst in many categories, including the following…
Cohen was so successful and motivated…that he sold his debt collection business and in 2016 opened Boston Dog Lawyers, a firm devoted primarily to his new clientele. (He’s also represented cats, horses, pigs, chickens, turkeys, turtles, snakes, an iguana, and a parrot.)
From the New York Times.
…(I have a little cart for that)…run it through a washer and a dryer…lug it back home…hoist it up a flight of stairs to my apartment…sit down to take off my shoes and socks…and throw my socks in…
Oh no!
The one-bedroom, one-bathroom bungalow in suburban Monrovia, northeast of Los Angeles, was crushed by a tree in May with two renters and two dogs inside. There were no injuries, but a fence and most of the roof were mangled.
…the asking price does not include the tree.
New York Fed’s process to move Baghdad’s oil earnings lacked key money-laundering safeguards, resulting in illicit transfers that financed terrorist groups for years
…the people who run things always know what they're doing, but they don't.
This from the Wall Street Journal, this morning:
Harris and Trump will have a similar goal in today’s debate: to knock their opponent off balance and define themselves as the best candidate
Imagine.
“If a potato could talk,” [one emailer] wrote, “it would sound like Tom Brady.”
OK, can win…at some things.
Since drawing parallels to Brady’s playing career are obviously irresistible, here’s one more. His debut was akin to his 86-yard passing performance in his second career start, a 30-10 loss to the Dolphins in Week 4, 2001.
[That season ended with Brady — and the Pats — in the Super Bowl.]
Porter County hunters may face fewer prey this deer season as a hemorrhagic disease has been striking the animals here in elevated numbers…
We don't know when first frost is likely to occur but AI (somewhat) reliable informs us that archery deer season begins in Illinois this year on October 1 and youth firearm deer season on October 12. First firearm deer season begins November 22 and second firearm season on December 6. And for the old guys, there's a muzzleloader-only (no kidding) deer season that begins December 13.
[For definitive and up-to-date info on Illinois deer seasons, check here.]
"Mother Nature has a way of mitigating the damage. Fewer deer after a die-off means more food for those that remain," we are assured.Long before Trump hit Beijing with tariffs, an American company making wire hangers won numerous trade cases involving Chinese hangers.
…trying to get rid of these things and now I find out somebody's making more?
Even worse, importing more?
It's exhausting.
Northeastern Minnesota is home to one of the world’s largest undeveloped mineral deposits, including what is estimated to be the third-largest nickel deposit and second-largest copper deposit in the world, according to labor-union figures. Humans will need to mine more copper by 2050 than was mined in all of human history up to 2018 to keep up with current growth trends, one study found, and converting to electric vehicles will only further strain that demand.
I spent the most formative years of my young life in this part of Minnesota. I've seen the vast open-pit iron mines of the Missabe range…
It'll be a loss of indescribable proportions, digging that up. But there'll be disasters of other sorts if it's not dug up — and of course there's a lot of money to be had — and so the digging will happen as sure as the world turns. (And warms.)
More companies and government agencies out in the wild want to read our body parts. The Transportation Security Administration, for example, started scanning passengers’ faces instead of checking IDs. These groups say the biometric processes are meant to eliminate friction, save time and reduce lines.
