Letter: Dire prophecy By Carl E. Burkhead, Lawrence November 10, 2014 To the editor: This prophecy was given to me on the day (Oct. 7) following the Supreme Court’s decision that will likely make gay marriage legal in 30 states including Kansas (Journal-World, Nov. 5). The prophecy is that God will bring a sharp rebuke…
An African-American woman will be the next U.S. attorney general. Her Name is Loretta E. Lynch. No kidding. Lynch. Is that poetic justice, or what?
I rarely write Letters to the Editor, but I was moved to send in this one which was published in today’s Lawrence Journal-World: Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s campaign team reportedly likes to refer to Democratic challenger Paul Davis as “the liberal lawyer from Lawrence” for no other reason than because they like the literate sound…
In a special interview with NBC prior to the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi/Russia, when President Barack Obama was asked by the interviewer if there is any personal rift or animosity between him and President Vladimir Putin, Obama smiled benevolently, then said that Putin’s public style of sitting back and looking a…
Although I’m snowed in today in Lawrence, Kansas, I’m grateful for all the birthday greetings I’ve received, thanks probably to the fact that Facebook seems to have alerted all my friends even though I thought I had deleted the information about my bidet some time ago. Anyway, I spent the day bundled up cozily with…
While I am frequently tempted to write Letters to the Editor, I mostly just compose the letters in my mind, and never actually send them to the local newspaper. But, a couple of days ago, upon reading in The Lawrence Journal-World that Republican legislators in Kansas were planning to tour university campuses in the state…
The initial news from Jim Carothers: Dear Colleagues: I regret to inform you of the passing of Emeritus colleague Jack Oruch on June 6 in Ohio. Jack came to the University in 1963 and retired in 1997. He was Chair of the Majors Committee, a predecessor of the current Director of Undergraduate Studies position, and…
Mike Cherniss had a wry sense of humor, and he probably had the last laugh when he died on April Fools’ Day (2013) after a long and difficult illness. At the remembrance party held recently at the home he shared with spouse and partner Jane Garrett, many wonderful stories about Mike were shared by his…
In order to make schools safer, the National Rifle Association wants all teachers and administrators to buy guns and undergo special training so they can be ready to stop the likelihood of Newtown ever happening again. But why stop with teachers and administrators? In the State of Kansas, for example, if you’re fourteen years old,…
The New York Times reports that, according to the Pew Research Center, U.S. birthrates in 2011 hit the lowest rate ever recorded, with just 63 births per 1000 women of childbearing age (the rate was 71 per 1000 in 1990). For the first time in recent memory, Americans are having fewer babies than the French…