Lawhorn's Lawrence: A night of partying in Oread

Do you mean Ugh? Or maybe Uuuggh?

That's my reaction, anyway. We already know that KU is fully stocked with C-/D+ young minds who are an oblivious disgrace to higher learning. Yes, we know these binging dullards are mostly uninterested in intellectual growth and merely seek credentials as tickets to middle class incomes. But do the more grotesque and depressing aspects of their sub-mediocrity need to be rubbed in our faces, on graduation day no less?

May 19, 2013 at 7:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

U.S. Attorney General Holder tells Brownback new gun law is unconstitutional

I'm deeply ashamed of Paul Davis and Barbara Ballard. How on earth do they defend voting for this constitutionally illiterate travesty? Of course there's no sound argument -- they simply don't want to be disingenuously smeared in the next election as being anti-2nd amendment. Apparently only Fransisco and Wilson have the courage of their convictions...

It reminds me of the Republican senators who put side personal support for the background check bill and voted against it simply for fear of the NRA and the frothingly far-right GOP base.

Our elected officials' behavior is screaming for us to create a new word to describe this mortifying mixture of abject cynicism and cowardice.

May 3, 2013 at 1:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KBI expects results soon in ‘Cold Blood’ tests

This could also create a very damning counter to Capote's characterization of Smith, whom he portrayed sympathetically as a sensitive but tortured artist who snapped in a fit of frustration with his partner to commit the Clutter killings. The book also suggests that Smith prevented Hickock from raping the Clutter daughter and passionately opposed sexual violence. So, if they truly raped this woman and murdered two young children, Capote's portrayal starts to seem much more like convenient flattery of a total monster on whom he'd formed a crush.

April 26, 2013 at 8:14 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU school celebrating 100 years of architecture education — and late nights of work

Yes, the martyr complexes of architects indeed never sleep...

April 26, 2013 at 8:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU officials dispute cash balance list circulated by House Republican leaders who want to cut higher ed

It's a separate corporation, and such a stipulation is absurd on myriad levels. It's baffling to watch you post all over this thread only further illustrating the Lao Tzu maxim, "He who speaks, does not know..."

April 25, 2013 at 8:19 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU officials dispute cash balance list circulated by House Republican leaders who want to cut higher ed

You're talking about forfeiting 20% of the university's revenue.

http://publicaffairs.ku.edu/budget

That's hardly a blow any school could sustain, and nearly doubling tuition rates to make up the difference as you've suggested elsewhere would be a further disaster.

I take it you'd have had no interest in the points Obama was likely to make during his visit about the essential role of public universities and affordable higher education??

April 24, 2013 at 3:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Dr. Brownback?

Arguably the most extreme element of the legislation just signed, and what this letter partially alludes to, is the provision requiring doctors to recite junk science about the supposed correlation between abortion and breast cancer. Even those with pro-life beliefs ought to be able to acknowledge that this is goes far beyond any rationally defensible measure.

When legislators feel empowered to put words in doctor’s mouths, or when they seek to hold innocent partisan doctors who commit lies of omission about life-threatening conditions, they’ve clearly reached the point where the ends justify whatever means, a hallmark of fascism.

Adding ironic insult to injury, notsobright comes along invoking Hitler, not so as to identify these proto-fascists intent upon ruthlessly enshrining his belief system, but in order to slander their opposition and further enable them. Sickening.

April 23, 2013 at 10:53 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

It’s official: Brownback signs bill saying life begins at fertilization

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April 20, 2013 at 8:01 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Boston rejoices as bombing suspect in custody

He's almost certainly worth a lot more to us alive, since he can hopefully offer info on the networks that inspired him and his older brother to do this. This younger brother is supposed to have been better adjusted and less alienated from his peers, whereas the older brother was a troubled wife-beater and most certainly the lead personality in going through with this attack.

The older one's death will hopefully dissipate whatever jihadist spell he cast over his younger sibling, who clearly lacked the religious fervor to kill himself and may now realize that his best path forward is total cooperation and singing like a canary.

So really, the older one's death and the younger one's capture is one of the best scenarios you could hope for, both in terms of justice and gaining counter-terrorist intelligence.

April 19, 2013 at 8:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU links: KU offering multiyear athletic scholarships; Topeka college-choice blogger accepted to Yale

I'd bet "little to no money" that Espinoza will pick Yale for the superior cachet, plus there's the flattered feeling after several rejections when one of the smartest, prettiest girls says yes to a dance. It would be nice if he or somebody explained how Yale will cost him "little to no money..."

April 19, 2013 at 7:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )