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- Kobler to lead shift toward 'technology-rich' classrooms May 23, 2013
- No consensus on McLemore's draft position after lottery May 23, 2013
- Off the Beaten Plate: Black Forest Crepe at A.B.'s May 23, 2013
- Hillcrest teacher honored with annual 'Bobs' Award' May 22, 2013
- Two men face charges in Sunday morning shooting May 22, 2013
- 100 years ago: 'The vulturous Kaw triumped' over Billie Bob Atkinson May 23, 2013
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- KU student killed in crash on U.S. Highway 59 May 17, 2013
- Free State students and parents share emotions at graduation May 22, 2013
Father of slain toddler grieves in Missouri jail
I have to say that I came here after reading the headline and having little in the way of sympathy for the position in which this man finds himself. Reading the article, I was surprised to see that this man does not have much sympathy for himself either.
To me, that makes him a very tragic figure. He realizes that he deserves to be in jail and that he would probably go back to crime if released at this point. He also realizes that the errors he made cost him precious time with his wife and child. I hope that he finds the realization that he needs to choose the path of atonement from here and develops the strength to walk it.
Excellent job by the reporter of bringing this human story to us. Thanks!
May 16, 2013 at 5:31 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Drought relief expected in Douglas County
Some sections of Kansas are already out of the drought?! Obviously, Lawrence's slow recovery from the drought is due to the city commission and their business-repelling policies. The drought would already be over if Lawrence had a Menard's.
May 14, 2013 at 6:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Moral choice
The radiation at the sites can be measured by anyone and the equipment one needs to measure it is readily available.
A cover-up on these sorts of events is not really feasible. I would imagine that the Soviets wanted to portray a minimal impact of Chernobyl, or that the US would want to portray a more minimal impact for the thermonuclear detonation at Bikini Atoll. These places are still uninhabitable because you can't hide dangerous levels of radiation.
May 12, 2013 at 9:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Moral choice
I am a firm believer that with horrific events, it is completely unjustified to exaggerate and make things up to make the events appear worse than they are.
There is no way that one million people died two cities with a combined population of perhaps 500,000 people (at the time of the bombings).
There isn't any evidence to suggest that radiation persisted in amounts that would effect human health. Atomic weapons do not leave the same sort of radioactive contamination that nuclear meltdowns do. The radiation from an atomic weapon disperses much more quickly.
Measurements of radioactivity taken at the two sites today is essentially the same level as the background radiation that we are all exposed to.
There are a lot of people who died in these events. Dancing on their graves to score political points is not a "moral choice" in my book..
May 12, 2013 at 7:47 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
U.S. justice still far from color blind
I don't mind profiling when it comes to sentencing. It is pretty well established that child molesters and serial killers never reform. If someone will never be able to enter back into society without committing atrocious crimes, what is the point of keeping them alive and incarcerated? Guilt over ending a miserable life? Prison should not be a place to exact revenge on people or hole to shove them in when we don't want to deal with them anymore.
So I'm okay with profiling people by the reform rate of the crime and severity of trauma that crime causes to society. However, what Quijano endorses is profiling on socioeconomic class rather than by individual behavior. I think that this is an example of how to incorrectly use profiling by passing judgement without the need for an offensive action to have taken place. It also does not take into account the severity of the crime's effect on society. Further, it leads to the types of views on class that start to move into the realm of India's old caste system by automatically creating a different set of consequence for a particular crime depending on socioeconomic level.
So I disagree with Pitts only as much as he limits the discussion to race. Such blanket profiling is a risk for a much larger category of people than just minorities.
May 5, 2013 at 2:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: U.S. must do more to fight radical Islam
The Daily Show is on Comedy Central for crying out loud. It isn't like they are trying to pass themselves off as serious news. Same with the Colbert Report. Maybe we should restrict our estimations of reliable versus unreliable to the programs/stations that are actually trying to pass themselves off as legit.
April 28, 2013 at 6:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Internet fuels ‘homegrown’ terrorists
Look up Bush's full quote and find me the part where he discusses Islam. At that point, I will agree with you that it was a poor choice of words (at best). Until then, I will stand by my statements that the only reason people associate the crusade on terrorism with a crusade on Islam is because of their own bias towards thinking of terrorism and Islam as being connected.
You can rant against the quote or you can rant against associating Islam with terrorism, but you cannot be logically consistent and do both.
April 26, 2013 at 6:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Internet fuels ‘homegrown’ terrorists
Love the inconsistency. Bush did not claim that invading Iraq was a crusade against Islam. He claimed the war on terror was a crusade against terrorism long before the invasion of Iraq. What you are doing there is equating "terrorism" with "Islam", something which you contradict in the next paragraph.
Muslims can say that there is a Christian war on Islam, Christians will say that there is a Muslim war on Christians (Egyptian Copts, Nigeria, attacks on Christian churches in Pakistan et al., etc.). The truth is that both wars are only going on to the extent that paranoid fanatics perpetuate them. Trying to pass off their delusions as rational thoughts that need to be addressed just plays into their game.
April 26, 2013 at 6:25 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: U.S. must do more to fight radical Islam
Well obviously, I would turn myself into a homicidal maniac and go on a killing spree until I was shot dead by the cops.
Of course, you could look at it this way: the average American citizen is just as manipulated as are the people in foreign countries are (if not more so). The people in the US military are no less of pawns than the terrorists they are being sent to fight in places like Afghanistan. This isn't a dilemma of Americans versus terrorists, it is the American leaders who are manipulating us (while they sit in luxury) versus the Al Qaeda leaders who are manipulating the terrorists (while the leaders sit in relative luxury). Life exists through competition. The urge to manipulate others is merely a form of this competition. No society on the scale of that of the United States has been, and possibly cannot ever be free of people who are driven by this urge.
April 24, 2013 at 6:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: U.S. must do more to fight radical Islam
"How would we feel if another country interfered with us the way we do in other countries?"
We would probably come up with something like the Monroe Doctrine.
April 24, 2013 at 5:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )