Posted on September 9 at 8:50 p.m.
this is a great article. obviously, some people need to look at the description under the author's name that was featured in the newspaper: "loudmouth liberal". he never claims to be "fair and balanced" (unlike a certain pathetic excuse of a cable "news" station). he's quite honest about where's he's coming from, which i find very refreshing. too bad gov. palin has some troubles with the concept of integrity. i find mccain's and palin's outright LIES on issues such as the bridge to nowhere (literally "thanks but no thanks", except she kept all the money), earmarks (27 MILLION for a town of 5,000????? that's crazy), hiring lobbyists for aforementioned town, iffy per diem charges for her KIDS' airplane tickets paid by you, the taxpayer and so on and so forth, to be absolutely repulsive. and they have the AUDACITY to pretend as if they are mavericks who can change washington? they can't even come up with their own campaign theme, instead clumsily, shamelessly stealing obama's message, the message he has had since the beginning. mccain/palin's tactics are so freaking unbelievable. picking palin was a great short term strategy. mccain clearly showed us he is great at the whole attention whore thing by going after gimmicky, superficial qualities in his VP pick. but obama's pick for biden is great long term strategy because biden brings a wealth of foreign relations experience. he added SUBSTANCE to his ticket. the VP choices clearly demonstrate who has better judgment.
Posted on September 14 at 5:48 p.m.
this article was thoughtful and well-written. i really didn't like the fact that these people are getting so much money for doing something that is already beneficial to them. i am sure they put a lot of time and effort into this, but as the author mentioned, they get certain perks when it shows up on their resume...and if they are so passionate about ku and "making a difference" (yes, i heard that so many times during campaign season) shouldn't being able to serve be enough compensation? I think the previous policy was more than adequate. and the author is correct: without the UDK, i would have no way of knowing what new fees the student senate decided to add for next year.
Posted on September 5 at 7:56 p.m.
while the first column by the author was atrociously pointless, i was pleasantly surprised by this one. it had a thought-provoking message and evidenced a much clearer writing style. i too often wonder why a person's race is brought up so many times in connection with crime - especially when the suspect is already found and a description is not necessary. the examples she mentioned were excellent. and she was dead-on by noting the animosity towards immigrants. the irony is of course that everyone except Native Americans are immigrants, so if anyone has a right to be anti-immigration, it is definitely the Native Americans.
but i digress...the point of the matter is this article was very good, especially considering the fact that the op-ed pieces this year have been mostly unremarkable so far.
Posted on August 31 at 9:37 p.m.
very well-written article. articulate and enjoyable.
Posted on August 22 at 11:11 p.m.
Oh...my...word. Besides the poor writing that made me cringe (one gem in particular was "Why would you want to go out and ruin someone’s night, possibly career, or even life, regardless of whether you had the intentions of doing so or not is beyond me?" is not only a run-on sentence but should probably end with a period - i'm not a grammar stickler, but i expected more from a journalism student), this article lacked substance and relevance. While it is valid to claim that one might have been arrested wrongly, the claim loses much of its validity when one is intoxicated. As the author so eloquently stated, the "purpose that night was to make the town blurry". This statement makes me highly doubt that the author and her good-looking, white-shoed and new-hat wearing male friends and female friends (with the free-flowing hair and stilettos, of course) were probably not so innocent as she claims. By the way, those physical descriptions served no purpose whatsoever except to further irritate me that our money is being used to print such mindless drivel, but back to the main issue. What was the point of that article? Are we now supposed to be so concerned that - heaven forbid- there are altercations at bars when all over the world innocent lives are lost due to war, crime and natural disasters? Come on. The solution is so blatantly simple - anyone with a shred of common sense knows that drinking responsibly will significantly lower their chances of ending up in an altercation.
Posted on September 9 at 9:06 p.m.
Ha. This article is a complete joke. Where are the facts? For example, what has Sen. McCain accomplished? How has Gov. Palin fought corruption? Since the author glibly wrote a cute little conclusion without providing ANYTHING to support his claims, I'll provide him with some. For example, Gov. Palin was actually FOR the bridge to nowhere before she was against it, and she also accepted the money even though she ended up going against it. Her amazing executive experience? Not so much. She hired a lobbyist for a town of a few thousand at the time. She then went on to get 27 million dollars in earmarks for aforementioned little town. And even with all that money, she ended up leaving a previously debt-free town 22 million in debt. Is THAT the sort of "maverick" you want? What about Sen. McCain? Hey, did you know he was a POW? Yeah. That's about all I got from the RNC. He barely touched on what he was GOING to do, or what he has ACCOMPLISHED besides the embarrassingly simplistic "drill baby drill" and heroic yet not so relevant POW experiences, respectively. And how people who agree with the architect of the disastrous last 8 years (well, i don't know about palin...where does she stand on the issues? oh, that's right...mccain has her carefully sheltered from the big bad media while she is furiously schooled in policy matters) can say they will bring about "change" in Washington is ludicrous. Obama is right. McCain and Palin think the American population is stupid. I certainly know of one person who fits that description...
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