Today's word suggests a couple of bits of trivia. I remember a long time ago reading about Oriental fishermen using cormorants to catch fish, with rings around their necks to keep them from swallowing the fish. A few months ago there was a story on CNN about the catfish farms in Louisiana and Mississippi having cormorants take as much as three thousand dollars worth per night of the catfish. Because the cormorants were regarded as an endangerd species, shooting them was illegal until just recently. Then I saw another story about a robot with a red laser that was said to be effective in driving the cormorants away. The story did not say if the robot was on land or in the water. And I wonder how long it will be before the cormorants learn that the robot cannot harm them.