The city of Los Angeles took a step Tuesday toward limiting the availability of single-use plastic straws in restaurants, joining the state and a slew of smaller cities that have approved similar restrictions.
The measure, which was approved by the City Council 12-0, asks for an ordinance to be drafted that requires all dining establishments to give out plastic straws only by request, and studies a complete ban in the future.
LATimes
The plastic straw now enters ranks
of things for which we don't give thanks.
Pariah, indeed;
much worse than a weed --
with lips we'll now sip like real cranks.
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Mr. Pompeo said the U.S. would be free to develop and test a range of weapons if Russia failed to meet the deadline. He said Russia was in “flagrant violation” of the accord, citing cruise-missile tests as an example. Moscow has denied breaching the accord. WSJ
The Big Boys like to play with bombs; it's no fun to be hobbled.
And so they take their marbles home, and amity has wobbled.
It's not enough that global warmth is threatening the planet;
these juggernauts prepare for war -- their heads are made of granite.
Perhaps some race from Planet X will to our rescue come,
and shrink these darn warmongers to a pack of chewing gum.
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Authorities expanded a nationwide recall of raw beef products on Tuesday after hundreds of people fell ill from salmonella infection.
Washington Post
A hamburger rare is no sin.
But tainted, it might do you in.
They're recalling beef
-- the same old motif --
and notifying all next of kin.
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