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• “I'm going to try to take care of three responses with one reply (I've been to the Frozen ...”
• “Some of the items listed would appear to be such that they could be delayed for a year or two ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: I hadn't realized you lived in Cleveland. Due to a career change our family moved out of ...”
• “Given the low tax on cigarettes here in Missouri and the acknowledged fact that smoking them represents a health hazard ...”
• “The bar graph is fascinating! I am not referring to its vertical axis, but to its horizontal one: the number ...”
• “Does anyone seriously believe that Santorum is going to be elected President in 2012? (On the other hand, it could ...”
• “First, this is a situation where a map is definitely called for. Without a map it's like a bunch ...”
• “Hopefully there's not going to be a THIRD CONSECUTIVE outrage in three years for Black History Month at MU ...”
• “Of course we KNOW there'd be no arguing over which ads would be acceptable and which would not. Are ...”
• “Another old saying: "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." Aren't there also tests, applied ...”
• “The REAL problem is not the number or types of taxes or the rates of those taxes. That is only ...”
• “Whatever turns you on, Michael. :) Maybe we've progressed from the twilight zone to the erogenous zone. (I could go ...”
• “A further thought on the topic of "The Lord giveth, and the Treasury Department taketh away." In this country citizens ...”
• “The fact that the state of Massachusetts has even had a Republican governor in the modern era is itself remarkable ...”
• “Actually, there was a typo in the original article: the employees cited belong to Jimmy Buffett, not Warren Buffett. Their ...”
• “To repeat what I said elsewhere on this subject (curator selection procedures), this is like arguing over how the dining ...”
• “@ Ray Shapiro: Ray, I hadn't realized that you are an MS&T alumnus, or that at the very least ...”
• “Don: The story of Kipling's son was aired on network TV (PBS) not long ago. I saw it, and ...”
• “Well now I'm curious. When someone enters your home uninvited and without knocking, how do you KNOW whether it ...”
• “Brush up on your Kipling Start quoting him now. Brush up on your Kipling And the women you will wow ...”
• “With a shotgun there's nothing to worry about as far as sights are concerned. Point and shoot. Somebody, above ...”
• “@ Frank: No, I do not fish. I haven't been fishing since my daughter was in grade school. My daughter ...”
• “"Seldom do people have to use the gun." That's probably true. Also, some career burglars deliberately operate unarmed*, in ...”
• “@ Frank: Zoologists and wildlife biologists haven't discovered it yet, but all female armadillos are born pregnant. Why did the ...”
• “Assume, for the sake of discussion, that several students have loans on the same terms and for approximately the same ...”
• “Booker's Law: A gram of application is worth a metric ton of abstraction (theory). Think J. Karl would agree ...”
• “MS&T has participated in similar competitions for years, but has never taken a grand prize. Past homes got high ...”
• “It's true that for certain majors offered by UM System there ARE no alternatives elsewhere in Missouri. As extreme ...”
• “George, do you remember the fast food commercial where somebody said, "Where's the beef?" Applied to the present subject ...”
• “All well and good, but I ask [again, as I did in response to Kennedy's column last week] where ...”
• “Of course. That's because all the bad-asses are located at the Rolla campus. :)”
• “@ Don Milsop: Unless there's been some change in policy, DOD also pays compensation to school districts (here in the ...”
• “I will find out where she has gone And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among the ...”
• “Is any of all this covered by what's meant by the phrase "reeking of moral indignation"?”
• “@ Michael Williams: The person who wrote the book is unquestionably a parent (one child) but I'm not certain what ...”
• “@ Ray: Assuming that we could close down Amtrak service between St. Louis and Kansas City I seriously doubt that the ...”
• “I wouldn't want to bet that a few North Korean and Chinese corpses weren't urinated on during the ...”
• “@ Tony Robertson: Even here in "civilization" one cannot dial 911 and expect the instant presence of police. However, I do ...”
• “What's next? Will future Board candidates be required to take vows of poverty and chastity? Well, maybe just vows ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: Michael, my memory continues to fail me. Who was it that posited, in a book, that it takes ...”
• “It's doubtful that non-delusional parents would think they were or could be the only influence in their child's ...”
• “Being on the wrong end of a 12 gage shotgun is truly a "come to Jesus" experience. :)”
• “There are other ways to come up with curator candidates. For example, forget party affiliation and let alumni associations of ...”
• “Frank: I think you are in "de Nile" (get it?). While an analysis of the constituents of the water might ...”
• “@ Don Milsop: The Rio Grande may be long, but it doesn't carry much water. Years ago Corps of Engineers ...”
• “Michael Williams: I agree. Either we include everyone - spelled out - or we don't. Corporations are owned by people, and ...”
• “Many years ago the Boy Scout magazine had an article about a troop that held ALL their weekly meetings outdoors ...”
• “What I find absurd is the notion that there can be a war (including all the wars not involving any ...”
• “I've never been to Okinawa, but nobody I know that has been stationed there ever wanted to go back ...”
• “"To be a Marine and be assigned to the Pentagon is considered punishment by most Marines." News Bulletin: It's ...”
• “[I've been trying to avoid this topic - there are presently others concerning Missouri higher education I prefer to address ...”
• “One more bite at the apple, George: I've lived in Columbia for more than 20 years, and am used ...”
• “Both Missouri and Illinois have quite a few public universities and colleges. Iowa, which borders Illinois and Missouri, has a ...”
• “I'm reminded of a Victorian parable called "Who Will Bell The Cat." A house cat, allowed outside, was preying ...”
• “Well, let's see... As the result of a funding drive, MU has $1 billion in private pledges. Much of ...”
• “@ Joy Mayer: That's the one. There have been others (this one came readily to mind). There will be others ...”
• “J. Karl: Speaking of military research and development, I think Mr. Bush has come up with the ultimate battlefield weapon ...”
• “Joy: Thanks. For a specific instance of a deliberate topic "alteration" go to the story in August 2011 about the ...”
• “Don Milsop: I trust, since you name no names, you aren't including me in your roster of "liberals." I ...”
• “@ Louis: As you no doubt know, Baylor has been the only private institution in the Big 12. A similar situation ...”
• “@ mike mentor: I agree with your sentiments (your above post) but I feel you are far too astute not to ...”
• “Richard: You have raised an excellent point. Diseases caused by various agents or materials can in some cases be delayed ...”
• “@ Tara: With your other problems I can understand why your doctor didn't want to go the lithium route. It ...”
• “I'm going to take a shot at this topic, and the reason I am is an op ed piece ...”
• “Has Tara ever been on a lithium regimen? For those who can tolerate lithium carbonate (taken orally as capsules) the ...”
• “Frank Christian: You asked me a question (above) about whether catastrophic events of the 1930s and 1940s (Nazi Germany) and ...”
• “"Virtually every human society in history has created a god or gods..." Some have created LIVING gods. Examples include Hitler ...”
• “@ Joy Mayer: Thanks for posting the flashback reference. I join others who have said that you guys (at the Missourian ...”
• “I keep repeating this because I think it needs repeating. Biomass when combusted is like any other combustible fuel in ...”
• “"Obviously this whole thing could have been avoided..." Correct. I would like to have read Corey's response. My guess ...”
• “Frank, we need to remember that when the Nazis legally assumed power in Germany in 1933 Boy Scouts and similar ...”
• “Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts represent private, not public, organizations. Further, ever since such organizations have existed it has been VERY ...”
• “Recently someone pointed out that the present Supreme Court is composed of six justices who are Catholic and three justices ...”
• “"A house divided..."”
• “@ Tony Robertson: Thanks for sharing the article. (The children pictured are adorable.) There's a saying, not much liked by ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: The first 10 amendments to the U. S. Constitution do indeed represent limitations on the powers of federal ...”
• “Those familiar with the lending activities of organized crime may be struggling to understand how the operations of these currently ...”
• “It should be a snap to add such a course to the existing curricula at America's public and private ...”
• “Corey, sorry for any misunderstanding. I meant that you were using the CORRECT metric and not bogus ones such as ...”
• “These con games have been going on for ages. There are "tried and true" measures that are as valid today ...”
• “Reading the comments it occurs that if there is a solution it will NOT be a single solution. The assumption ...”
• “"When government decides to solve something, we have learned to be wary. The cure may not always be worse than ...”
• “Here is an answer to the question of how many miles of trails we should have. How many miles of ...”
• “Michael Williams: What will receive my attention is when I see a reference to eating granddad ALONG WITH your misspelling ...”
• “One person's icon might turn out to be someone else's idea of trash. One of my favorite words ...”
• “Shouldn't the caption read "Challenger loses..."? Grammar, folks, grammar!”
• “At one of MS&T's summer camps youngsters younger than noted in the article above are given a shot ...”
• “To quote a well-known and recently deceased baseball player, my seeing your above newspaper article proved to be "deja vu ...”
• “A minor (Miner?) suggestion, which I've made before: It would be helpful if as each post is made to ...”
• “Corey: According to our federal government - assuming one can believe their statistics - there is no record of a Ceramic Engineer ...”
• “Tony: Sans the poem, that could have been me. Metal scrap and newspapers. We cleaned out quite a few attics ...”
• “@ Frank: That's correct: Japan purchased significant quantities of steel from the United States prior to WWII. Two things to ...”
• “We're certain the idea of paving (repaving) brick streets with newly-made paving brick will meet the approval of brick ...”
• “@ Don Milsop: Until I'm presented with evidence to the contrary I am going to assume that Jon is capable ...”
• “Since "leadership" appears to now be the hot topic, I'm going to post something I've previously posted (at ...”
• “Iowa isn't a state that should be used when discussing minorities: it has a very small black population, and ...”
• “[To the tune of "Missouri Waltz"] When it's springtime in the Arctic And it's forty-four below. All the ...”
• “Meanwhile, there are presently regional airports here in the Midwest (Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana - even one located on the Upper ...”
• “Good point, Greg Allen. I'm reminded of an old Quaker saying, of which I will only change [here] one ...”
• “"If the fox hadn't stopped To scratch His behind, He'd have caught The rabbit." -Old Shannon County, Missouri ...”
• “Derrick: Yes, seriously. It's really that awful. If situations like this were confined only to nuclear production of electrical ...”
• “Why should state funding for Missouri higher education have anything to do with the athletic programs at only ONE university ...”
• “"...reason and experience were trumped by emotion and activism." That could describe much of what's going on these days.”
• “Playing Kentucky for homecoming should be less stressful for Pinkel than having to play Florida, Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Auburn or ...”
• “He who steals my food steals trash. [Shakespeare is probably spinning around in his grave.]”
• “[Past time to interject some humor into this thread!] Michael Williams: I too must once have been 62, but damned ...”
• “Mike may not be 80 years old, but some of us are (or are crowding it). Eighty years ago few ...”
• “Shell game?”
• “This piece reads more like the Donald Kaul I knew, who wrote a daily column for the OLD Des Moines ...”
• “"... fewer than 46 percent of Missouri college students seeking bachelor's degrees earn their diplomas after six years in school ...”
• “@ J. Karl & Mike Martin: Sorry, Karl, but I have to go with Mike on this one: something is either a ...”
• “"...the nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan”
• “J. Karl: There seems to be some disagreement as to what profession is the second-oldest profession. According to Ronald Reagan ...”
• “If fuel combustion is involved, carbon dioxide will be formed as a product of combustion. That's basic combustion chemistry ...”
• “Does the Post-Dispatch really have a problem with Mr. Wolfe's lack of academic management experience or is their problem ...”
• “ACTION MAN I think he lives across the hall And I don't know him at all But I have ...”
• “MIT's national and international reputation rest on its graduate schools and programs. There are other colleges, universities and technical ...”
• “Seems to me that alumni not only can but DO in many cases "give back" to their alma maters. Ever ...”
• “"You don't want to punish someone who is already sacrificing to make sure their child gets a good education ...”
• “Thanks, Richard: Meanwhile, there will be another announcement concerning an official a level just below president. The present chancellor at ...”
• “Your points are well taken, but having 60 years contact with University of Missouri I've noted there is a ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: According to MS&T (their current promotional literature) 32% of their students are from household incomes under $40 ...”
• “Bill Gates is a nerd, and he didn't do too badly. If we had Bill's money we'd ...”
• “I agree, George, and am looking forward to your return. Merry Christmas, no matter how politically incorrect that might be. :)”
• “@ Michael Williams: Could it be that the little girl's given name ("Cassandra") is fortuitous? "Calamity" might have been a ...”
• “"It sends the 180-degree wrong message to the campus..." Sorry to learn we are apparently down to only one campus ...”
• “Ray said, "But isn't a college education a right and not a privilege?" Of course it is, Ray. And ...”
• “Sounds pretty much like my childhood Christmases, but just a few years later. The high point of Christmas was singing ...”
• “Page 74 of "The Economist" magazine, December 10-16 issue, is an opinion piece called "University challenge." The final paragraph says ...”
• “Or we might do something ridiculous such as allowing Mr. Wolfe roughly 12 months on the job and THEN making ...”
• “Michael Williams: Whether or not you meant to do so, sounds like you are quoting from the theme song for ...”
• “"When did being financially successful and business savvy become fodder for attacking one's character as greedy?" Oh, sometime during ...”
• “Swimming pools come next.”
• “Your caption: I'm sure Columbia College and Stephens College are celebrating their promotions to university status.”
• “@ Frank: I liked the the carjacker "reasoning." In a book written by a Brit doctor who worked with what he ...”
• “@ Tony Robertson: Your concept of what the primary purpose of tax policy should be is rational and still shared by ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: It's reasonable to assume the glitch is technical (and therefore not humorous), but given one of the ...”
• “Jonathan: As we all know, alumni listings sometimes have errors, but the name "Jonathan Hopfenblatt" doesn't show up on ...”
• “Michael: Not much going on in Rolla, Missouri either. There IS a Walmart in Rolla. According to some figures I ...”
• “MS&T is proposing an inflationary increase plus a 2% additional increase for need-based scholarships. From MS&T's promo ...”
• “@ Mile Mentor: I enjoyed reading your comments, above. There are several minuses to working south of the Rio Grande*, but ...”
• “Surprised Sundvold didn't win. Have Tiger fans forgotten an NCAA tournament game in the early 1980s when Missouri played ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: It's time you and I faced up to it, Frank: we are really bad people. We don ...”
• “@ mike mentor: Never underestimate the abilities of others, Mike. Most intelligent people can fake a few posts and do a ...”
• “Prerefining of coal is an American technology that is being used in the United States and Australia. Much of the ...”
• “J. Karl Miller: You are most welcome, and I will send you the cartoon, cut from an actual newspaper, forthwith ...”
• “Anyone having such "passionate" and "learned" views on this subject should be willing to post them under his real name ...”
• “1- This is worth taking the time to read. 2- Decoupling tuition was proposed during the Elson Floyd administration and ...”
• “I suppose it is time to firm up my post (truly brilliant, Williams!). One must be careful formulating an expansion ...”
• “Mark Foecking: I shill for two public institutions of higher learning: one in Missouri and one in Colorado. I am ...”
• “Derrick says, "...Ellis did not misuse the word." I'm overjoyed to learn that. People like me who received faulty ...”
• “Seems like a lot of fuss over some semi-literate engineer. If, in the future, I translate possibly objectionable words or ...”
• “@ J. Karl Miller: An interesting political cartoon by Matt Davies of Tribune Media Services appeared last week. I've been ...”
• “Finding points of agreement might be useful. For example, maybe we could ALL agree that strewing cotton balls on a ...”
• “Innocent? Moi? Never mind the knighthood, I'll gladly settle for one cold Killian's Irish Red Lager, brewed in ...”
• “"I judge it prudent to make nice to the SEC teams..." A wise stance if you're from MU, but ...”
• “Derrick Fogle: I don't mind being quoted, as long as I'm quoted correctly and not out of context ...”
• “"The other 99 percent didn't benefit from the economic booms of the 2000s." Really? So my efforts NOT to ...”
• “There IS such a thing as helping yourselves. There are some Division I schools that bring huge turnouts to ANY ...”
• “@ Frank: I posed for the evil old man sequence. :) People from MS&T are the ones your mother warned you ...”
• “Weeping willow tree Weep in sympathy Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me Listen to my plea ...”
• “@ Ray Shapiro: Ah yes! "The little house on the gumbo." According to the official Mississippi travel guide, Starkville, Mississippi is ...”
• “What sort of "bowl punishment" has Texas A&M received for "jumping the Big 12 ship"? The Aggies are going ...”
• “The Donald Kaul some of us knew, who wrote interesting and frequently humorous columns for the Des Moines Register, apparently ...”
• “Shreveport, Louisiana on the day after Christmas. Now there's a real "rowser!" Should "falling out" of the Big 12 ...”
• “Three items: 1- Apparently loss of taste and/or the ability to detect odors is not unusual for certain falls ...”
• “I like the analogy of the crows and the corn, Frank. Unfortunately, scarecrows are less than 100% effective when it ...”
• “How many of those who said "this" or "that" keeps them from participating would actually participate if "this" or "that ...”
• “But Mark, standing around on corners while holding up signs keeps those folks from getting into real trouble. :) Is our ...”
• “Is it just coincidence that the person interviewed is named "Grinch"? Will he steal Christmas? Will he and the site ...”
• “Michael Williams: If you monitor their conversations (which are apt to be about business, sex, and whatever professional sports are ...”
• “I again assert that of the various recognized professions in this country there only seem to be TWO where the ...”
• “Editor & mike mentor: We don't need death camps in Missouri, thank you. Besides, the cremation process creates carbon dioxide ...”
• “Where are Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall when we so badly need them? :)”
• “mike mentor: My maternal grandmother was one of 8 sisters. Ten children were born, but the two males died in ...”
• “@ John Schultz: John, if you don't straighten up I'm going to turn those three Lutheran ladies loose on ...”
• “mike mentor: Sorry, but KU is incorrect. In fact I don't believe KU has a broadcast journalism program, although ...”
• “Gary Straub: Suppose that instead of the Magi, three Lutheran ladies had shown up at Bethlehem. They would have: 1- ...”
• “These discussions are interesting, but they seem to assume that a degree in Journalism is only suited to matters concerning ...”
• “Tim Trayle says we should "Be grown-ups about this." Actually, that's not bad advice, but Mr. Trayle telling us ...”
• “Actually, Halloween IS connected to a major Roman Catholic Christian holy day: All Saints Day (November 1st). The proper name ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: A "heads up" about another no-no. Suggest you not employ the term "redneck." Ah, yes! Political correctness. As ...”
• “@ Vega Bond: Fascinating! A former employer of mine sold a product named "Vegabond." It was used to bond bricks together ...”
• “It's been noted that in a sea of liberalism at American universities and colleges there are exceptions: the four ...”
• “If Sweeney had gone to Egypt in the 1990s and done the same things he could have encountered the same ...”
• “Forgot to mention that Americans own more automobiles per capita than Japanese do. Hard to drive somewhere when you have ...”
• “They said someday you'll find All who love ["sure" riches] are blind. When your heart's on fire, you ...”
• “Numbers aside, trying to apply a concept that works well one place (Japan) to any old venue is a ticket ...”
• “Sports Illustrated magazine interviewed University of Alaska-Fairbanks head coach Yakut Igloonuk concerning his playing the polar bear. Igloonuk was somewhat ...”
• “The probable opponent will be University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Pinkel needs to pay special attention to their linebacker that looks a ...”
• “Maybe MU will be invited to the Bobbitt Bowl, sponsored by Snap-On Tools. :)”
• “Last May students from two minor (in terms of size) engineering disciplines walked across the stage at a UM System ...”
• “It seems obvious that some subjects lend themselves better to eLearning than others. For example, lecture courses versus laboratory courses ...”
• “@ Frank: I gave up keeping track of things for Lent and haven't yet reinstated the practice. :)”
• “@ Frank: Well, that wouldn't have been the last case of celebrity shoplifting. Purdue's current president is a lady ...”
• “@ Michael: Excluding Nebraska, which has only just joined, Purdue is the only Big 10 football team not to win a ...”
• “Where is Calvin Coolidge when we need him? "Silent Cal" wouldn't screw up in a debate; he'd keep ...”
• “As the Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy keep telling students at St. John's College - the two campuses ...”
• “@Michael: Those trade names attached to bowl games mean sponsorship. Sponsorship means dollars. Dollars mean NCAA Division I athletics, because ...”
• “Amazing! In at least two Missouri counties at present ANY new housing would be welcome. Neither county is located in ...”
• “No problem, Karl. Old Georgia Tech proverb: To err is human, But to really foul things up Requires employing a ...”
• “"...bemoaning loss of purity in the original land grant mission." Oh, Michael, the land grant system lost its virginity long ...”
• “Michael: My experience re patents is of course in the private sector, but PERSONS are granted patents, which can then ...”
• “Some miscellany: I think the high rate of interest in the Reagan administration was carryover from the last year of ...”
• “If what I'm about to say is incorrect, someone please amend it, but the last time I recall interest ...”
• “"Upscale apartments for college students." Granted, some college students these days appear to be "well heeled," but how big a ...”
• “Karl, we need to remember that liberals have more refined sensibilities than heartless, soulless Neanderthal conservative types do. To alter ...”
• “So, nothing is more important than the football coach? Whether you mean that sarcastically or not, I disagree, and so ...”
• “If Pinkel is perceived to be a problem, there's a simple but not easy solution: nobody, other than a ...”
• “Aside from performing a public safety service, as Bearfield has noted, I prefer to see billboards remain for another reason ...”
• “A bear, however hard he tries, Grows tubby without exercise. Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, Which is not ...”
• “It's always instructive to learn where someone's priorities lie.”
• “I "get" the blank verse, Ray, but it prompts a couple of comments. If that's the block on Cherry ...”
• “"To be fair, modern unions do understand that for the most part." Modern INDUSTRIAL unions understand it, because they are ...”
• “What also matters is costs to hiring and training people. If they are already trained/experienced when hired, they expect ...”
• “@ James Walker: Thanks for the reference. Looks to me as if the "all red interval" would be best from a ...”
• “@ Joy Mayer: Where is there a need, in this particular situation, for negative comment? No one playing by the rules ...”
• “Sounds good. Hopefully it will discourage our little friend who plugs his sportswear by posting multiple entries on the site ...”
• “@ Tony Robertson: Iowahawk is hard to beat. Since there's no home game this Saturday in Iowa City he'll ...”
• “Tiger Nation, huh. Is it a member of the United Nations? Does it have a seat on the Security Council ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: First, good for the Cyclones (see below). That's at least two overtime wins this season (they beat ...”
• “We protesters Harbor profound and Brilliant thoughts But we are unable To articulate them Because we're too busy whining ...”
• “Who here remembers The Glass Tiger? We're talking 1980s, maybe some years before and some after. It was on ...”
• “Another wrinkle. Don't think for a minute that a mess like the one at Penn State doesn't affect ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: I definitely agree, but if he is convicted I would place the suspension on the first game in ...”
• “So you WEREN'T joking about another $1 billion fund-raising drive. When MS&T heard about the previous MU drive ...”
• “Frank & Michael: Michael notes that all of us tend to act in our own self interest. If I may mix ...”
• “I am aware of one; there could be others. I have previously (on this forum) posed the same questions you ...”
• “I'll take your word that Iraq sucks; Egypt ain't no prize either (except for the antiquities). Korea sucked ...”
• “We could see if Joe Paterno might be available. If your primary purpose is to win football games, it's ...”
• “Is that you, Paul? We'll have to send you to Iraq. On the other hand, if it is Paul ...”
• “He has a valid excuse for going on a bender. He'd just been advised that, sooner or later in ...”
• “@ Steve Baumann: Two groups of Americans particularly vulnerable to being fleeced when it comes to temporary housing are college students ...”
• “Even with a 28 point head start, won't they still lose the game? Likely, but the way KU has ...”
• “The Kansas-Missouri annual football games WILL continue! University of Missouri System's only other football program, founded in 1893, has ...”
• “Getting the SEC rule changed should be a snap, especially when you're the new kid in the neighborhood. :) I ...”
• “Ah, forgiveness! What would we ever do without it? I'm not familiar with the fish you've named. I ...”
• “C'mon, Frank, my apology to Barry Manilow was intended in jest. I have a Dell ergonomic computer keyboard (since ...”
• “No, Jimmy, the measure of everything these days in Columbia is whether it suits bicyclists; pedestrians and motor vehicles are ...”
• “You can get religious brick murals too. How about "Our Lady of Perpetual Indebtedness," a popular export item to both ...”
• “The price shown for an Oklahoma State ticket skews the Big 12 distribution. (A person buying one of those tickets ...”
• “For those enamored of bricks, I still suggest a nice brick mural: Endicott Clay Products Fairbury, NE 68352 402-729-3323 www ...”
• “I know there will be some breakage. See my above posts. Bricks, like many other ceramics, are excellent in compression ...”
• “@Ray Shapiro: If you read my posts on this topic (from the top) I am not in favor of any ...”
• “Martin referenced an article, above, concerning brick paving in Florida. Here is a source someone interested in the subject might ...”
• “James Morrison. Wasn't there a singer with that name? James, you have aroused my curiosity. Have you ever WORKED ...”
• “But the troubles that have plagued NCAA Division I (in particular in football and basketball) remain. Too much money invites ...”
• “J. Karl: The following is submitted as a rebuttal to the above haikus, and I trust you will receive it ...”
• “J. Karl: How is one to explain what is unexplainable? My stance on the matter is similar to that frequently ...”
• “J. Karl: A deceased friend of mine was one of several brothers who grew up on a farm near a ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: OK, but I notice you didn't deny that there is a war going on. That the rich ...”
• “There is something we need to understand: there has been a war going on in the United States for about ...”
• “Why don't we just formally expand bachelor degree requirements to five years instead of four years? It seems to ...”
• “@ John Schultz: If either of my two grammars were alive, they'd disagree with you. One of them would probably ...”
• “When reminiscing about the good old days in the Big 6, Big 7, or Big 8 we need to remember ...”
• “@J. Karl: I love fried okra. It's amazing that the same vegetable can be appetizing fixed one way and ...”
• “@ Robin & Frank: My late aunt received her initial degree in music from KU and she didn't kill anyone or ...”
• “@ Corey Parks: Only two of the four UM System campuses play football: MU and MS&T. MS&T has played ...”
• “@ Robin Nuttall: I agree, but there is also a humorous side to the rivalry. While MU and KU maintain this ...”
• “Why thank you, George. As Blanche Dubois says at the end of "A Streetcar Named Desire," "I have always relied ...”
• “Solution to the "mega sports" problem: eliminate NCAA Division I and NCAA Division II. Everybody plays by NCAA Division III ...”
• “@Corey Parks: No, Corey, the pile I am talking about is located west of Columbia Mall, not too far from ...”
• “Usually, Karl, I agree with you, but this time not so much. It seems to some of us in this ...”
• “I still remember the kindnesses civilians showed me (and I'm not just talking about American civilians) while I was ...”
• “I'd like to thank Applebee's two restaurants in Columbia for again providing free meals to veterans on November ...”
• “Forgot to mention that the watershed involved is Harmony Creek (not Hominy Creek), whose main water source is storm water ...”
• “A few actual football games are worth more than 20,000 words worth of speculation. Did Joe Paterno say that ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: Nicely put. Despedida no les doy porque no tengo minguna basta con saber que estoy Aqui en el ...”
• “Kroenke has other projects in mind. Visualize Columbia Mall. Bernadette Street runs along the north side of the mall, then ...”
• “"In the SEC, athletics is more like the front lawn ... Inside the academic house, however, the roof is leaking and ...”
• “Please pass the grits, greens and boiled okra, George. As a treat, when we're seated in our rockers on ...”
• “@Danielle Rodabaugh: Thanks for the information. Some of us are more at home with graphs, technical drawings and math equations ...”
• “Can't foretell the future? To paraphrase a celebrated newspaperman, c.1920: "I have seen the future, and it sucks ...”
• “I feel some sympathy for Joe. That may have something to do with the fact that I'm nearly as ...”
• “For the football stadium, how about "We-Haven't-Been-To-A-Super-Bowl-Lately-And-We-Can't-Let-The-Indian-Chief-Ride-His-Horse-After-A-Touchdown-'Cause-It-Might-Offend-Native-Americans Stadium." Too long?”
• “If money alone were the answer, this and a number of other situations would long since have been corrected.”
• “Ah yes, Al Capp, like Walt Kelly a cartoonist who was a true social commentator. Meanwhile, let's cut the ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: Your advice is sound, but I'd remind you of an important consideration: in for someone to have ...”
• “@ Joanne: Well said. Possibly the greatest perversion of any word in our language is application of the word "liberal" to ...”
• “@ Richard Saunders: Reading your comments I think you have a better understanding of the situation than many others do, including ...”
• “@ Michael Williams et al.: Old Polish proverb: One man's trash is another man's treasure. Thought for today, since ...”
• “First, no one more than I would like to see tons of face and paving brick, glass, and Portland cement ...”
• “Next fall the Big 10 is supposed to go from eight to nine conference games in football: five games in ...”
• “@ Louis Schneebaum: Nice job, Louis! I particularly liked that you acknowledged the fact that it's easy to spend someone ...”
• “Michael & John: Your comments are positively (not negatively) electrifying.”
• “Thanks, Michael. I was about to trade my 1951 Hudson Hornet for a more eco-friendly vehicle, but now I'll ...”
• “It will be interesting to see if an increase occurs in the number of KU basketball fans at UMKC and ...”
• “Properly made, paving bricks will last a VERY long time. However, reconstruction of a brick street, alley or large driveway ...”
• “@ Tony Robertson: Actually, these problems began during Grover Cleveland's second (but discontinuous) term. :) For those who may have forgotten ...”
• “@ Richard Saunders: One thing about all this that was NOT hard to miss was how little attention seems to have ...”
• “mike mentor: I'm cool, Mike. Have some boiled peanuts. I've even got napkins, so you won't have ...”
• “Now there's a choice: If you're tired of waging "class warfare" you have the option of waging "age ...”
• “No, the NCAA is not a governmental oversight body. It's far more influential than some governmental oversight bodies. For ...”
• “Frank Christian, Please pass the boiled okra, grits, black eyed peas, corn pone, hush puppies an' the like down to ...”
• “There's no reason why football and basketball games between KU and MU can't continue on an annual basis ...”
• “And it's still only about money. Anything else is just window dressing.”
• “Before the 1960s the closest I had been to the "South" was Rolla, Missouri, some locations in Oklahoma, and Austin ...”
• “Big 12 has no plans to expand. You don't find many patients, hospitalized in the ICU and on life ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: I was once offered a job in Pascagoula, Mississippi (the plant produced high purity dead-burned magnesium oxide from ...”
• “"There's a yellow rose in Texas, that I am going to see, No other darkie knows her, no darkie ...”
• “Some scrumptious pulled pork barbecue comes from the Birmingham, Alabama area. I've never found any that's better. As ...”
• “@ mike mentor: You are welcome. We all serve as best we can. "What's yours is mine; what's mine ...”
• “@ Tony Robertson: Thanks for shedding light on this matter. I was confused: when I saw "Where's our cesspool?" I ...”
• “Since the Big 10 is mentioned by Horn, nobody LEAVES the Big 10. Schools (Michigan State, Penn State, Nebraska) have ...”
• “"... to an attorney billing upwards of $200/hr. ..." That's modest as attorney fees go. I used to bill law ...”
• “If Paul has not exited for Iraq he has probably temporarily gone to Columbia, South Carolina, where he is dickering ...”
• “We know empirically that temporary cooling occurs when our upper atmosphere is flooded with particles of volcanic ash, as this ...”
• “@ Richard Saunders: Your comments deserve a response from someone, but you may have to settle for me. In over 55 ...”
• “Hey, Mike, want to meet some nice girls? Sorry, Mike, but I couldn't resist. During the years following the ...”
• “Grilled 'gator, yes; boiled peanuts, no. :) ____________________________ "Wots de name of yo huntin' dawg?" "Ah calls 'im 'Fido.'" How you spell ...”
• “Assuming "cultural identity" includes cuisine, Tiger fans need to be introduced to BOILED PEANUTS, a true South Carolina delicacy. Boiled ...”
• “"They want to be on the national stage for football because it affirms their self worth." I wonder what Sigmund ...”
• “mike mentor: I believe they are still positing the same thing in America's predominately science and engineering institutes as ...”
• “It would be interesting to compare four-year graduation rates from the year 1950 to the year 2010 at both MU ...”
• “@ Tony Robertson: Actually, Gregg's posts show considerable latent talent. He simply needs to address more serious matters. As an ...”
• “"We've been treated like stepchildren by those ... for years." You don't need to go to College Station, Texas ...”
• “I think that BOTH investment and demand are serious factors. Also, individual business sectors have a bearing on how things ...”
• “Well, when discussing taxation we are obviously discussing LAW, in this case, tax law. One problem with laws in this ...”
• “Time to lighten this up. Maysoon Zayid, who does stand up comedy here in the United States (she was born ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: Your mention of what a black man said reminds me of another story. I'm sure YOU remember ...”
• “@ Gregg Bush: Bearfield is correct, both as regards the problem and a solution. Some of us know actual situations. How ...”
• “Well it's pretty obvious, isn't it? They were just "Whistling Dixie." It will sure be nice when all ...”
• “Un deux, un deux, par le milieu, Le glaive vorlpal fait pat-a-pan! La bete defaite, avec sa tete, Il rentre ...”
• “My post concerning library sculpture was intended to be humorous; my Tiger Spot post was not. Tiger Spot was none ...”
• “During good economic times and bad economic times (read Great Depression, for example), certainly not all men who ride the ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: That is correct. I believe it's Sunnis that pray or are supposed to pray 5 times a ...”
• “@ John M. Nowell III: Let's not forget "Tiger Spot" at MU. All someone would have had to do before ...”
• “Eins Zwei! Eins Zwei! Und druch und druch Sein porpals Schwert zerschnifer-schnuck... - from der Jammerwoch (which is intended to be ...”
• “On a different line, the media sometimes misleads the public as regards final outcomes of tort litigation. I hasten to ...”
• “Actually, having a good job may make it more possible to live out one's dreams. Of course it also ...”
• “@ Gerald Shelnutt: Apparently you don't understand the significance of the public library sculpture. Neither do most Columbians. It's ...”
• “From your reference: "Once Phase III is completed," said Akers, "the facilities within the College of Engineering will be on ...”
• “In Egypt it is the law that every factory have within its boundaries a mosque. At normal prayer times the ...”
• “Get your Confederate flags here! Two for the price of one! (I've previously been advised by Missourian management that ...”
• “Actually, Curator involvement suggests that none of these situations is true: 1- Faculty of the University of Missouri System - all ...”
• “In a real sense the success of manned and unmanned (probes*) space travel, principally to date by the United States ...”
• “Obviously geography is either out the window OR it is simply a matter of my poor primary and secondary geographic ...”
• “@ Joy Mayer: Re Rex Virus, as Harry Truman has been quoted as saying while President, "Nobody likes a smart ass ...”
• “Repeating (but not verbatim) a prior post, not long ago the local media led us to believe that MU going ...”
• “Hey, Rex Virus! I have met many members of your family: Yellow Fever Virus Hepatitis C Virus Rabies Virus Mumps ...”
• “Factoid for today: Should MU join the SEC there will be THREE schools in SEC whose sports teams name is ...”
• “Good question, Harold. While I can't be certain, from what this hacker seems to be peddling (his wares) this ...”
• “So it's premature to decorate Columbia, Missouri and/or the MU campus with Confederate flags. Please keep those flags ...”
• “Time to lighten up, Frank, Mike, Mark, Tony, et al. [Sing this to the tune of "Far Above Cayuga's ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: Here's an interesting proposition that was prevalent when I was growing up, "Where we were what we ...”
• “Well there's at least ONE difference between giving to charities, universities, etc. and having government do your charity giving ...”
• “@ frank christian: I think we are seeing Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which applies to particle physics (and is an important ...”
• “"We are the 99 percent that are tired of having our decisions made by Wall Street." Where does this place ...”
• “"Usually the ones staying out here at night are the least fortunate, which isn't right. They shouldn't be ...”
• “From its founding, some people and/or families in the United States have had greater wealth than others. So? Many ...”
• “Good for the Foster Brothers. Perhaps some of their earnings will be spent in Callaway County, which could use the ...”
• “I believe it was a United States Senator from Michigan who said that when people with money get together with ...”
• “Within 60 days, or less, demonstrators are going encounter rough weather at many demonstration locations, both here and in Europe ...”
• “Tony, ABBA at the Bluegrass Festival wasn't all that much. You should have been there for Larry Clinton's ...”
• “Q: The title of what William Faulkner novel best describes local politics in Columbia, Missouri? A: "The Sound and the ...”
• “Ricky: I note that your October 15, 2011 / 2:32 p.m. comment has been removed. Vas you a bad ...”
• “@ Paul: Previously, and elsewhere, I have posited that "millionaire" has lost much of its meaning due to inflation. Decades ago ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: There are several collections of Burma-Shave jingles available on the web. Thanks for sharing. We used to look ...”
• “You'd better bet there's a difference between being a millionaire and having an annual income of $1 million ...”
• “Favorite "oops" poll: when a national literary magazine took a "scientific" telephone poll in 1936 and confidently predicted that Alf ...”
• “Alterations shouldn't change the MEANING of what was said. As an example, the speaker might be some one from ...”
• “The second largest domestic automaker (Ford) neither needed nor asked for a bailout. Maybe that tells us something about domestic ...”
• “Mark Foecking said... "I always find it interesting that those that advocate most for renewable energy are those that don ...”
• “@ Rick Gurley, John Schultz and Paul Allaire: As I recall there were some remarks in the now missing posts concerning ...”
• “While an individual might die at any time during their life, most people in the industrialized world now live to ...”
• “Having $1 million in total assets is hardly surprising, given the depressed buying power of our currency today. When some ...”
• “The most interesting of all these "realignment" moves, real or otherwise, could be the one when MU attempted to be ...”
• “It's called "the best athletic conference is any conference we're not currently a member of" syndrome. I guess ...”
• “This might end in one of two ways: MU is accepted by the SEC. Everyone at MU is presumably happy ...”
• “@ Clara Allen: I saw that article. However there is obviously only one person who rules the roost around here (or ...”
• “Pa was so tickled Ma thought he was pickled. He'd just tried... Burma-Shave! (No doubt popular with haiku hillbillies.)”
• “Free! Free! A trip to Mars! For 40,000 Empty jars (of Burma-Shave) [From actual 1950s Burma-Shave road sign.) Insert ...”
• “I for one would very much like to read a reply to Rick Gurley's above post dated 10-8 at ...”
• “It's clear, from the changing colors of the trees, that we've had a change of seasons. Not much ...”
• “Electricity produced by coal-fired generation units is apt to be with us for some time to come. If we shut ...”
• “Frank, I'm not certain Donald Kaul would recognize a Republican if he tripped and fell over one. I wonder ...”
• “Kaul for some years wrote a column ("Over The Coffee") for the Des Moines Register newspaper. NCAA Division III has ...”
• “Those critters can be aggravating. Several years ago, here in Columbia, one decided to build a nest of leaves under ...”
• “Go with trial E.”
• “All this is reminiscent of that Victorian parable (intended for CHILDREN) called "Who Will Bell The Cat". In the parable ...”
• “@ Ricky Gurley: No argument with your observation, but I want to note that the census data for the United States ...”
• “The only way to make chemistry 100% safe is to stop doing chemistry. I don't think that's a ...”
• “Yes, folks, but look at the positive side: maybe there will be this added entertainment for MU's 100th Homecoming.”
• “Fear or no fear, no one should be surprised at the present state of NCAA Division I athletics: we are ...”
• “Are we slowly sinking into a TV soap opera? Maybe it's a novela instead. A novela* is the Latin ...”
• “Looks as if the "food police" have been frustrated - again.”
• “"If you build it, they will come." At least that's the expectation. (How well used is the present parking ...”
• “@ John Schultz: It's probably considered to be a recognized art form, John. Apparently one can take a crucifix and ...”
• “Let's move on To something new. Time to end Your sad haiku. (Apologies to Burma-Shave)”
• “Not only were cigarettes part of Army field rations, civilian airlines issued them with in-flight meals, even to cabin class ...”
• “"At some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. Ever since that time, government ...”
• “"If you build it, they will come." (From "Field of Dreams.") But does that apply to municipal parking garages, as ...”
• “Money plays too large a role in NCAA Division I athletics? We're shocked. SHOCKED! Who would have thought that ...”
• “1- If Baylor University held the first homecoming it's probably the case that homecoming events didn't include a ...”
• “Is the number "35" for students in a classroom somewhat accurate or just a number grabbed out of thin air ...”
• “From a publication by ASM International: Acetylene is a hydrocarbon gas ... When under pressure acetylene is unstable, and a slight ...”
• “OR do what natural gas suppliers have been doing for at least 50 years: running their company sedans, trucks and ...”
• “It's likely that unlike the rest of the nation there were few locals who watched the LSU-West Virginia football ...”
• “@ Derrick Fogle: It's good to know that you don't regard those cats that relieve themselves in your garden ...”
• “A few totally random comments. First, the population of Finland is ethnically and racially pretty uniform. Also, in Denmark, Norway ...”
• “Once again I find I was misinformed when attending public school. According to what they told me, the Executive Branch ...”
• “Tread carefully, George, fans in Starkville, Mississippi have a short fuse. Do we really want a resumption of the War ...”
• “The male-female ratio continues to be approximately 3-1, which is true of most technology universities, public and private, in the ...”
• “@ John Schultz: Liquid assets? High liquidity? Salem these days, while county seat of Dent County, is best known as the ...”
• “@ Louis Schneebaum: The book has some excellent color pictures. Suchard took at photos and Kohler wrote the text. I suspect ...”
• “It's all about money and ONLY about money. (But isn't that the case with so many things?)”
• “Pre-Columbian civilizations such as the Mayans required human sacrifice, with captured opponents typically being those sacrificed. Those rituals took place ...”
• “If you believe Missouri is a Southern state then the SEC makes sense. Geographically, Missouri is bounded by three states ...”
• “Thanks, Louis: There's an older stand of coniferous trees along MO Hwy 19 south of Salem, Missouri. This is ...”
• “Highways are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. (Apologies to Joyce Kilmer) Frank, I ...”
• “@ Bill Fisher: Might you be giving us a small dose of sarcasm? There's nothing inherently wrong with traffic circles ...”
• “Maybe there are those who would prefer to see men parading around wearing women's fancy clothing, rather than seeing ...”
• “No argument, just a "minor" note. Major research taking place in our University of Missouri System is NOT confined to ...”
• “Based on my experience, here's how it can go. Direct from college: They pay attention to your transcript and ...”
• “One does NOT need NCAA Division I athletic teams to have pride in his/her campus. There are three other ...”
• “The final member school to leave should please close the door. :) It's all about money, and only money.”
• “@ Derrick Fogle: You're popular today. Here's something in the "small world" department. I was having lunch at Applebee ...”
• “@ Derrick Fogle: Thanks for your response. Given the situation it appears you are taking the correct approach. Again, I hope ...”
• “Sorry, but if you check the original text I did not say it would be a good thing for UM ...”
• “@ Derrick Fogle: Would you care to comment further as to why you want your daughter in college a year earlier ...”
• “While I can appreciate the gravity of the air conditioning issue I can't help smiling. Are you nice people ...”
• “It is indeed cool, as are the two female Astronauts, both still on active duty, who matriculated at Missouri University ...”
• “Perhaps we should stop and remember the situation at the collapse of the late and unlamented* Soviet Union. It was ...”
• “Geographic considerations are entirely different. For example, you can drive from Golden north to Boulder in about 30 minutes without ...”
• “It makes sense to keep buses as near full as possible, especially as opposed to empty or near-empty. Seems like ...”
• “1- May we assume that all dorms are filled? If not, that should happen first, before public money is spent ...”
• “Good for UMKC!”
• “Let's make this even more simple. All this furor isn't about some body's chancellor or about dear ...”
• “Once, long before 9/11, I got caught in a situation something like this. I arrived at the Pittsburgh airport ...”
• “While the plants are entirely different, this situation is reminiscent of the introduction of Korean kudzu (a vine). Kudzu was ...”
• “Tony & John: I'd also like one of those "I CONTRIBUTE TO MY OWN MORAL & ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION" bumper stickers. I ...”
• “Record enrollments can be an indicator of competency and educational value, but what do we say when expansion abruptly stops ...”
• “What in God's name possessed a person to do this? If the individual were drunk or on some substance ...”
• “@hank ottinger: It appears that the post in question was either written by an engineer or by someone who does ...”
• “"Tort," from Latin "tortus," can be rendered into English as "to twist" or "twisted." A fair summation of the present ...”
• “In the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries (at least until the end of WWII) trade between a colonial power and ...”
• “Yes, Tim, Boone County and surrounding counties are sacrosanct. If you are a geographic outsider and/or have differing views ...”
• “Maybe it's time for the conference to court BYU in an attempt to return to 10 teams. BYU has ...”
• “Actually, the Big Ten conference first went from 10 to 9 teams (University of Chicago withdrew, from both the conference ...”
• “Well that's interesting, and it confirms rumors we've been hearing. Suggest that Alan Scher Zagier, who rote this ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: Sometimes the best way to test a proposal is to take its provision(s) and stretch it (them ...”
• “Pop quiz concerning the history of private sector unions. Without accessing a bio for John L. Lewis (UMWA, CIO), which ...”
• “The more usual version of the joke concerning re-drawing the Missouri-Arkansas state line would appear to be that if the ...”
• “One assumes that the purpose of the garage remains as a place to park motor vehicles and not to function ...”
• “Assuming that geography has any bearing on athletic conference structure, Missouri is bordered by three states with universities presently in ...”
• “According to an article in this newspaper not long ago, the "33,000" portion may in the near future "max ...”
• “It's not good for ANY city to have more than a few vacant homes, yet that situation exists in ...”
• “Regarding the "luciya helan" post, 8-29-ll (above), I believe I once knew someone named "Luciya." She was a coal miner ...”
• “Kansas City began as a small settlement known as Westport Landing, which was where steamboats docked to deliver goods for ...”
• “Was dumping cotton balls on the MU campus a "healthy dose of Southern charm"? If so, a rather surprising number ...”
• “"It's time for CPS to stop tying its schedule to MU's." Seems sensible, but in Columbia MU is ...”
• “A new comic strip will appear in syndication in the United States in September. The comic strip, popular in Japan ...”
• “@mike mentor: But of course those folks and their ideas pose no danger whatsoever to our republic. The danger comes ...”
• “It begs the question of why they can't get things done in the time allotted during the regular legislative ...”
• “While mutually agreed upon - and subsequently verified - nuclear arms reductions are definitely worth considering, it would be suicidal to unilaterally ...”
• “@ Robin Nuttall: No point in worrying, because none of us can do anything about it. An earthquake represents a PRESSURE ...”
• “In a press release issued early Wednesday the National Earthquake Information Center revealed that a tracking error occurred Tuesday in ...”
• “(1)The Raton (literally Spanish for "rat") Mountains are an interesting geologic formation, running to the east and at right ...”
• “It might be worth anyone's time to again read Kathy's article and ALL ATTACHED POSTS. Based on the ...”
• “Michael: Regarding your numbered point about white lightning, as a Chemist I assume you're aware there's a still ...”
• “Michael: You are correct. Explosives are chemistry, as is the combustion of fuels. Note: The campuses I listed are also ...”
• “"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - Of ...”
• “Chemistry is interesting but it's actually rather tame. Matriculate on a campus where commercial EXPLOSIVES are inventoried and routinely ...”
• “At some point there will be a report (it's required). Whether further details make it to the media or ...”
• “"ASM Materials Engineering Dictionary" (J. R. Davis, ed.) defines "etchant" as follows: (1) A chemical solution used to etch metal ...”
• “You remember the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, don't you? They won the 2010 Insight Bowl. Who was the team ...”
• “The building itself is listed for renovation, as has been noted in the Missourian. The present condition of Lafferre Hall ...”
• “Hypocrisy is always a condition someone else is guilty of. I suspect Karl doesn't actually cash his government check ...”
• “@Michael Williams: I had the same thought you did, but mine concerned a TV drama (1959-1965) rather than a motion ...”
• “@Robert Stinnett: Your description of college students definitely isn't complimentary! I'm not disagreeing with you (I don't ...”
• “One more NCAA Division I "impropriety." A Miami booster convicted of running a $930 million Ponzi scheme.”
• “Someone may be walking around with solutions to many of our problems, even though a lot of people may have ...”
• “Old University of Texas-Austin joke. "UT scientists, based on data from an orbiting satellite, have concluded that there MAY be ...”
• “The problem is a bit bigger than the automobile itself. The problem is that we've built an entire economic ...”
• “"I know they [MU] missed out on 10s of millions of dollars in research money..." Really? I hadn't heard ...”
• “Doesn't the SEC already have a member school whose sports teams are named "Tigers"? LSU? Another well-known Southern "Tiger ...”
• “J. Karl Miller: A significant component of our energy problems is lack of understanding of the requirements to generate the ...”
• “"Each person has the right to believe what they wish and live with the consequences of those beliefs." But a ...”
• “True insurance is CONTRACTURAL (a legal contract between insurer and insured); Social Security is NOT contractual. Any inference that Social ...”
• “I once worked, as an hourly extra, for the old family-owned Register, assembling sections of the Sunday Register (a task ...”
• “@ Ricky Gurley. Although it seems like summer has lasted forever, it will soon be autumn. Leaves will turn color and ...”
• “I note that Social Security is still being referred to by some as "insurance." The United States Supreme Court years ...”
• “Well, deja vu all over again! Donald Kaul in his earlier days with the Register was one VERY funny fellow ...”
• “We will know that we are making progress toward reducing the deficit when NO government program/entitlement is considered immune ...”
• “Actually, conversing with the "other realm" is far more accessible than one might expect and requires no special equipment. It ...”
• “"Volgadeutsch," means Volga German." Until the Stalin era in Russia there were many "Volga Germans." They had been there for ...”
• “Hays, Kansas, huh? My sources tell me that while there hasn't been a recent attack, Hays residents can hear ...”
• “"Such a move would absolutely guarantee that the SW MO members of the legislature would look to punish MU and ...”
• “For reasons which neither she nor our family were ever able to understand, my mother attracted all sorts of people ...”
• “Res ipsa loquitur = "The thing speaks for itself." Obama says we have to do better. That's pretty obvious, isn ...”
• “The "Bunny & Clyde" show ("Bunny & Clem" show? "Bunny & Bunny" show? "Bunny & Lonesome Dove" show?) is entertaining, but I believe the ...”
• “Res ipsa loquitur.”
• “@ Ricky: I'm all for expansion, as long as it doesn't involve the national debt. :) I won't be ...”
• “@ James Terry: Thanks for the information about the useful graphic. S&P's announcement was probably timed with the weekend ...”
• “Unlike our resident expert I don't pretend to be knowledgeable about the Ferguson matter, but it seems to me ...”
• “Yes, Frank, S&P has downgraded United States' bond rating. Columbia Daily Tribune has the story. So does Yahoo! If ...”
• “It's a bit shocking that an educated adult would not know that a corporation is a legal "person." We ...”
• “It should be assumed that any federal subsidy, for any purpose, can be reduced or eliminated at any time. Given ...”
• “Someone seems to have dug themselves a rather deep hole. An old Polish proverb says that when a person finds ...”
• “While there are differing considerations when drawing boundaries, wouldn't the primary one be that all the wards contain roughly ...”
• “"I find it incredibly pathetic that people of modest means keep defending the fraudulent rich." [Are the rich fraudulent because ...”
• “Thank you, Ricky, for starting my Friday off with a laugh. It occurs to me that things haven't changed ...”
• “Well, Greg, I've never much cared what they call me - as long as they call me when food has ...”
• “Let's cut to the chase: Will the beer taste better and/or cost less? It's doubtful. I'll ...”
• “@ Corey Parks: We probably don't want to shelve wind power, but energy conservation is always a good thing. We ...”
• “One could say that the Democrats were in denial, and we aren't referring to the name of the famous ...”
• “HalfMoon LLC Seminars will host a one-day seminar on Friday, August 26th at Sheraton Plaza Hotel, St. Louis on the ...”
• “Well, Sally, that's how it is. We must feel compassion for murders, and should invite rapists and child molesters ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: Guess it's time I came clean for you and all others posting here (properly) under your REAL ...”
• “The last, and possibly most interesting, act of this pathetic drama has yet to occur - assuming that it does occur ...”
• “It's been quite a while, but I recall that if you sat in the bar area, which was on ...”
• “What Collins proposes has historically been called "nationalization," yet Collins does not use that word. Maybe the words "nationalization" and ...”
• “"Hopefully more legislators and other policymakers will give net energy the consideration it deserves..." I hope so too, but I ...”
• “Apparently Mr. Collins has lead a sheltered life. Has he ever lived and worked in a country where the state ...”
• “The electrical power grid does not stop at one state's boundaries, therefore it makes sense that firms generating electricity ...”
• “For the sake of discussion, let's assume Mark's concern is unfounded. I don't think it is, but ...”
• “Let's explore the PHILOSOPHY behind Social Security. Our government recognizes that you (every one of you) and I are ...”
• “@ Michael: Just be careful where you dangle your participles.”
• “Michael Williams: You may employ or split infinitives if you wish ... but don't you dare display any dangling participles ...”
• “Hank Waters sometimes gets confused. (I am more charitable toward Hank than some, possibly because Hank and I are about ...”
• “"...after five years awaiting trial..." Is your community located in the United States? Our Constitution grants an accused the right ...”
• “And, Mark, I would (as I usually do) add that in addition to the situations you've cited we need ...”
• “"We must tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect." - Attributed to Harry Hopkins, head of the WPA and ...”
• “One thing IS clear. When all the smoke of battle clears away the current DEBT will still be there. You ...”
• “Manufacturing is more diverse and more specialized than some imagine. For example, it's possible in the United States to ...”
• “"...how many people actually save for retirement?" I know several of my generation who did, including myself. Granted, we may ...”
• “Tim Trayle and Michael Williams: Without taking sides, I would like to mention that another series of incendiary bombings took ...”
• “I agree with John Schultz: This is a poorly written piece. Looks like an engineer wrote it! Hopefully it won ...”
• “@ Michael: This goes back to the difference between the situations Greece and the United States now find themselves. Greece cannot ...”
• “I have a difficult time understanding why Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5" would be objectionable reading material for high school ...”
• “The four campuses of University of Missouri System continue to provide good educational value. Who would argue that? Unfortunately, one ...”
• “This morning Yahoo! home page carried an article by CNBC about the eight top institutions of higher learning for graduates ...”
• “@ bret tvrdy: What you'd like to have and what you are going to get are not the same. Any ...”
• “@ bret tvrdy: Interesting last name you have. I grew up with kids whose family names had few vowels. Would you ...”
• “Q: How does the government debt crisis in the United States differ from the one in Greece? A: All the ...”
• “"Colleges and universities will have to give up regional turf battles and consolidate programs so that the best ones can ...”
• “Has anyone else noticed that in Norway someone can set off a bomb and deliberately kill a large number of ...”
• “"Close enough." No, giving a 50-minute presentation occasionally is not the same as being a professor, especially a professor who ...”
• “And then we have the (in)famous 4th of July weekend ATV ride of MU basketball player Ricky Clemons that ...”
• “@ Robin Nuttall: There's reason to believe that at least one lawyer has read the article, but if I were ...”
• “@ Corey Parks: I'm not aware that Park University has gotten out of serving the military. That would be VERY ...”
• “Michael says, "We can discuss Paul while he's not around." Fine. What do you suggest we discuss for the ...”
• “I am not nor was I ever a college or university professor. The closest I've come to lecturing at ...”
• “The Henry J. Waters Institute of Artificial Journalism? Powerful football team! Did you see what they did to Notre Dame ...”
• “None of the guesses so far are correct or close to being correct. Final two hints: Hint #4: Obtain a ...”
• “Truman State University? Not even close. Hint #2": The university in question is private. Hint #3: It is not located ...”
• “"Climate change must not be regarded as a political issue. This and energy depletion are the two fundamentally defining issues ...”
• “The Missouri university that claims the second largest number of students (after University of Missouri System) is active in on ...”
• “Hasn't Lafferre Hall been "on the books" for renovation for some time? I had assumed it was already being ...”
• “@ Harold Sutton Sorry, Harold, if there was some confusion. I never for a moment thought you aren't posting under ...”
• “Send the facts to Iraq. Isn't that where everything else is being sent? Why make exceptions? Iraq must be ...”
• “Harold Sutton: I may have heard every lawyer joke available form 1985 to 2005, all of them from lawyers. How ...”
• “A healthier restaurant menu is good, but where do children eat most of their meals? If their home represents an ...”
• “Hypothetical situation: Is it ethical for a lawyer to advise someone or some group to break the law? I'm ...”
• “This was one of Rose's better efforts: at least the blame was placed on irresponsible parents and not on ...”
• “No surprises. Most of the winners are located near each other. Pirtle is located at Weston, Missouri, northwest of Kansas ...”
• “@david smith: Thank you, David, for brightening my day. :) "When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists ...”
• “Fascinating. Going back to the agricultural reforms of the New Deal (Secretary Henry Wallace), the whole idea was to first ...”
• “Michael & Frank: You have started me thinking (which is always dangerous). We have (according to Forbes magazine) two ladies here ...”
• “We are probably going to hear a lot about ethics in the days to come. Various professions/occupations have their ...”
• “Frank: The desire for sons has skewed adult populations of some societies. This was true in rural China for centuries ...”
• “Rick: You can check the demographics (government has them). I don't doubt there were instances of many children in ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: Sorry for a delay in answering your question, but My focus during the last 24 hours has been ...”
• “@Laura Johnston: You are welcome. If anyone was or is distressed by my comment, understand that it was made with ...”
• “The crew consisted of four Astronauts, three men and a woman. The 46-year-old woman, a shuttle veteran with long residence ...”
• “"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money." - Attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen ...”
• “So it's up to the moderates, a group definitely on the endangered species list. There was a rock and ...”
• “This morning (July 20, 2011) Yahoo! home page shows a news article that Delta Airlines intends to cease service to ...”
• “I was doing some paperwork this afternoon and it dawned on me that Karl could also have made the case ...”
• “Paul: An alternative would be to enroll at either UMKC, UMSL or MS&T, where except for men's basketball ...”
• “Don't like Capitalism? Let's revive Soviet-style Communism. Just think of the enjoyment and camaraderie we can experience while ...”
• “Looking at three of the categories shown above I am reminded of advice I received during my formal education. It ...”
• “Time marches on. We can remember when the home of Allen P. Green in Mexico, Missouri was the largest private ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: I' decided to handle the dollars on the same SCALE our federal government does. Gotta think BIG, Frank ...”
• “Harold, Michael and Frank: Let's assign $10 per word to all the verbiage thus far attributed to this subject ...”
• “@ Ricky Gurley: Well Hello, stranger. (I'd suggest getting the gang together for lunch, but an outdoor lunch would NOT ...”
• “I neglected to point out that this proposal is the sort of thing ACLU attorneys dream about. Not only the ...”
• “I don't know, Paul, your comment sounds a tad extreme. Maybe if we first shoved them all into ghettos ...”
• “Harold, Regarding the second paragraph of your post (immediately above), I agree. The right to legal recourse is one thing ...”
• “How many United States and Canadian cities have a full-blown super market in their downtown area? Very few, one suspects ...”
• “Any legislative attempt to force payment would be struck down by the courts. "Cruel and unusual punishment" can apply to ...”
• “This (train) business is beginning to sound like the title of a novel by William Faulkner: "The Sound and the ...”
• “Forcing inmates to pay for their expenses while in jail or prison might sound appealing and even "fair" but would ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: You have correctly identified the campus where the astronaut received her BS, MS and PhD degrees. Two previous ...”
• “Had occasion recently to visit Eastern Iowa Regional Airport (Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Amana). In some respects the area served ...”
• “A related business here in Missouri is cooperage: manufacture of oak barrels used for ageing wine. A shop exists in ...”
• “Michael Williams: Odd? No. Selective, yes. In a few more days, God willing, NASA'S space shuttle "Atlantis" will complete ...”
• “Michael, Frank, et al.: Could it be that bringing anything new to Columbia (whereas anywhere else there would be little ...”
• “Obviously this matter won't be resolved this weekend or any time soon. As I pointed out above, the article ...”
• “Woodsman One: Don't know about the content of your posts, but you certainly have an unusual name. Some might ...”
• “Frank Christian: Interesting. I thought George Wallace coined the expression "pseudo-intellectuals" (during this bid to be President). George certainly made ...”
• “@Frank Christian: Did you have to include the word "intellectuals" in your post? In this large and highly diverse multi-campus ...”
• “I believe the rules specify that only Missouri residents are eligible to compete. If that rule could be waived for ...”
• “"I still think we need nuclear in addition to as much wind and solar as we can install." Agreed, but ...”
• “Woodsman One; also a post elsewhere from a "j mizzou." Has somebody "fallen off the wagon" when it comes to ...”
• “Janet: The article concerns an expansion of the local Islamic center. At least some participants in this center are NOT ...”
• “Well, Mr. Williams, you are obviously not one of Generalissimo Obama's loyal foot soldiers. Having already lived a reasonably ...”
• “Yes, Karl, I remember that one. I'm sitting in my home office with an entire BOOK of Reagan quotes ...”
• “The left side map shows MO 106 highway. This is one of the more "interesting" 2-lane highways in the state ...”
• “The possibility, no matter how slim, that any government could be shut down should be regarded as a blessing rather ...”
• “There are other trains of this type (I've ridden them in Iowa and Minnesota): the concept may be new ...”
• “Presenting this information is good, Karl, but when the chips are down what is far more important is the character ...”
• “As you say, your post is intended to be sarcastic, but I raised an eyebrow over the "be able to ...”
• “My comment was intended to be much broader. If you want to eliminate something you dislike and/or find dangerous ...”
• “@ John Schultz: There are four (4) bonded wineries in St. James: Heinrichshaus Vineyard & Winery, Meramec Vineyards, St. James Winery and ...”
• “The local Steak 'n Shake probably won't make it to the restaurant reviews in the New York Times either ...”
• “"Are there any other stores coming to Pulaski County...?" Don't know, and if so, will they be located at ...”
• “Well put. I'd like to add something that should be obvious. This technology is used because someone can make ...”
• “Okay, in May right here in University of Missouri System a tragic auto accident* occurred in which four international students ...”
• “@J. R. Smith: Scintillating suggestions by our Middle Eastern expert aside, you are correct. I would also include St. James ...”
• “@ Linda Krause: An argument for learning a second language is available on the web site called "Buzzle.com." That might ...”
• “It may come as a shock to some journalists but there are more than a few native-born Americans who have ...”
• “The situation has contributed to the growth of Rolla [~18,000], county seat of Phelps County (adjacent to Pulaski County ...”
• “@ frank christian: Probably, Frank, the "6 year old son" was brought by the stork. _____________________________________ A pre-school girl asked her mother ...”
• “@ david smith: I agree, but maybe a bit of "expansion" would be good. In our modern in-the-toilet society the criminal ...”
• “Much of what we've learned about the solar system has come from using unmanned probes, which (while expensive) are ...”
• “We are undergoing a period of temporary insanity; hopefully it will not last much longer. Is there dichotomy in the ...”
• “Well, Michael, what the situation points out is that laws alone - and we are up to are posteriors in them ...”
• “@garry graham & J. Karl Miller: Interesting! The figures Garry quotes are pretty close to the cost of my four-year education ...”
• “The present dam-reservoir system was adequate when built, but conditions have changed. Is there room to build yet another dam ...”
• “@Michael Williams: I've contacted John F. Carney III* (MS&T Chancellor) and William S. Jenks III* (Mayor of Rolla ...”
• “@Shaina Cavazos: Well said. The subject of rednecks is a bit more complicated. Some "rednecks" drive Volvos and wear expensive ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: Your prize is five $20 bills of Miner Money. Miner money can be spent at the cafeteria, book ...”
• “Some of us easily remember that era because we were part of it. I refer not only to the WW ...”
• “The fact that concentration of an ingredient in a mixture is minor does not necessarily limit its effects. That's ...”
• “Let's have another quiz. If we sample the atmosphere and do not do so in the immediate vicinity of ...”
• “@ John Schultz: It's called spending your way to Socialist paradise. Problem is, the results more and more resemble hell ...”
• “I agree fully with Mark Foecking, however I believe this needs to be expanded into a broader context. Which of ...”
• “"There are no immediate plans to cap enrollment." Really! University of Missouri is a System, with four campuses; enrollment at ...”
• “Will this result in a shortage of pussy[-ies] in our fair city? Inquiring minds want to know. :)”
• “"Government is like a big baby - an alimentary canal with a big appetite on one end and no sense of ...”
• “This has nothing directly to do with "biofuels" but it definitely has to do with the convoluted state of electrical ...”
• “John Schultz: Fifteen (15) states and the District of Columbia recognize common law marriage; obviously, most states do not. [Since ...”
• “As I said, and will continue to say, I have no problem as long as we aren't fooling ourselves ...”
• “also @thana kamsin: There's something I neglected to mention about the "Piggy-Back" concept that in its early days "poisoned ...”
• “The area has long been thought of as the most impoverished and backward part of Missouri. It reached a form ...”
• “@thana kamsin: You are correct; however, there's a developed technology which would make better use of energy and take ...”
• “Possibly the only federal agency having a worse track record than Veteran's Administration is the BIA (Bureau of Indian ...”
• “Carbon dioxide IS created when plants biodegrade. That's elementary plant science. But if the plants aren't grown (as ...”
• “"A good case for demise of the University's business incubator project." Will the university (deliberately not capitalized) be able ...”
• “So far He has. No guarantees. "The mills of God grind slowly but exceedingly fine (nanoparticles?)."”
• “Rapacious corporations? There's a concept! What about rapacious governments? I keep quoting Comte Joseph de Maistre because he has ...”
• “Don't know, John, but I'm sure Frank will answer. However, when that first train shows up we need ...”
• “You should feel free to to express yourself as you see fit. There are some rules, but they're not ...”
• “Interesting. Is the situation "bad" when it applies to SEMO but acceptable when it has already occurred within University of ...”
• “Is it too esoteric to suggest that the uniforms may be as they are because the department and its officers ...”
• “Well presented. In the early 1960s downtown businesses all closed at Noon or by 1 PM on Saturdays during the ...”
• “"I would hate to see the the lights of the US of A grow dim on my watch." You are ...”
• “Michael Williams: Bent's Old Fort is definitely one of America's better historic attractions, even if it is only ...”
• “Agreed. We should also remember how railroad passenger traffic is often run. There are different classes of passenger trains. You ...”
• “Sorry about that, Michael. :) I've searched the MS&T on line catalog and there is no BS or MS ...”
• “We've been down this road before (in discussions). To understand the virtues of high speed rail in the United ...”
• “No, Michael Williams, there is no advanced degree at MS&T for "Solider." In fact I cannot find the term ...”
• “@ Stephanie Wollenburg: Thanks for the information. MS&T summer campus - there are currently about a dozen - have been around for ...”
• “It's been a mean season for auto deaths involving University of Missouri System students or recent graduates. As Noted ...”
• “It's important to remember that no law is ever going to be more effective than its actual enforcement. That ...”
• “Should we suppose the origin of summer vacation was primarily due to the fact that until well into the 20th ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: Your argument is rational, but rational arguments tend to work more effectively when addressed to rational people.”
• “"Even on a dinner train that goes to Sedalia and back." The dinner train in question runs from Columbia to ...”
• “See my above post on this topic. Do either MU or Columbia College offer remedial courses in English grammar and ...”
• “Frank Christian: You name a route and I've used it at one time or another, including the one you ...”
• “Braille at the local gentleman's club? Michael, you are a very humorous fellow! Your last sentence is also a ...”
• “When driving from Columbia, Missouri to Lincoln, Nebraska the fastest and shortest way is to drive to Kansas City and ...”
• “And if the fox hadn't stopped to scratch his posterior he'd have caught the rabbit.”
• “@ Frank Christian: I recall my junior high English teacher, Miss Dorothy Hall, who cautioned her students that disorganized writing can ...”
• “PS to prior post: Engineering programs (bachelor level) in this country are structured, controlled and audited regularly by an organization ...”
• “@ Bearfield: As I posted earlier this year, three year bachelor programs in several majors are already in existence in some ...”
• “Bearfield's comments seem apropos, but need they be confined to faculty matters alone? A primary purpose of any college ...”
• “Reminds me of when I worked in western Pennsylvania years ago. At times I'd fly from Pittsburgh airport on ...”
• “Interesting. Judging from the photos, participants are younger than any participating in MS&T's many summer camps, where all ...”
• “This university system has a flagship campus? Newspapers are truly educational!”
• “Paul: I find your post, above, to be truly profound. Thanks for sharing.”
• “Good point, about the Germans. Another thing we should remember about that situation is that according to most historians the ...”
• “It could also be a case of expectations being seriously greater than reality. A comment was made last week on ...”
• “Mandated product warning labels have been with us for some years. Not all are federal. As you would surmise, most ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: Ken Midkiff? He'd be about as welcome on the campus of Missouri University of Science & Technology as ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: Tax the Sierra Club? Oh, Michael, you are one funny fellow! Do you have one or more diplomas ...”
• “Michael Williams: Thanks for your response. You touched on something else that seems unique about Rose: unlike other regular columnists ...”
• “"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's..." "Caesar" seems to be doing pretty well in the tribute business, but he ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: I know you're familiar with Rose's columns. Surely you've noticed that from time to time ...”
• “Should we forget, while "biomass" may sound sexy you are still dealing with fuel combustion, meaning the creation of carbon ...”
• “Money is NO problem! Money grows on trees. It's a peculiar tree, and there don't seem to be ...”
• “Never mind race or economic status, why should the government bail out (relocate) people who live in a recognized flood ...”
• “Whether taxes on the "rich" (and the IRS classifies me as "rich") are raised isn't the place to start ...”
• “There already is one UM System campus with capped enrollment, which began with the 2010-2011 academic year. The reason for ...”
• “Romans 3:23. I agree with R. W. Smith's sentiment that it should be up to voters in the ...”
• “More heat than light?”
• “"Quite a bit of stupidity happens at the University." Are you referring to that collection of buildings located south of ...”
• “"...people ARE stupid, but it IS a university." So, are we supposing that because it's a university stupid things ...”
• “Nice, and informative, article.”
• “Jim Jones, above, has suggested use of pedal cabs as an alternative to Rosman's downtown parking suggestion. I don ...”
• “We are continually told, and some of us believe it, that voting is very important. Well, if something is very ...”
• “This does not appear to be a textbook example of a successful business venture: about $200 in sales versus $90 ...”
• “I believe the problem is that "campaign contributions" from two wealthy contributors (Mrs. Mellon and attorney Fred Baron) were diverted ...”
• “For years both Missouri University of Science & Technology and University of Missouri-Columbia have offered engineering students the option of work-study ...”
• “Highway collisions between full-grown elk and motor vehicles at full speed should be "a pretty amazing experience" too.”
• “To those with a simplistic view, everything is simple. It would nice if that were really true, but it is ...”
• “No, Carlton Berg, nothing is better as far as Liberals are concerned than throwing large sums of money at "social ...”
• “I agree that this matter isn't about conservative vs. liberal viewpoints. The fact those viewpoints have been brought into ...”
• “@ Corey Parks: I know of a historic case where a municipality (which had a safety inspection ordinance for passenger vehicles ...”
• “Right on, Karl! Next thing you know they'll be resurrecting Carrie Nation and her axe to do their dirty ...”
• “It's also a very good idea not to swim in the Nile River at any point during its travel ...”
• “In my post, 5th from the top, I may have inadvertently confused some readers. George Kennedy has not to our ...”
• “As the definitive definition of Communism I submit the definition given by a former U. S. Army POW, who upon ...”
• “Mark Foecking, agreed. Communism as actually practiced in the former Soviet Union only approximated classical Communism. Mark Yount. I think ...”
• “I may be wrong, but a road information sign on US 63 in Phelps County just north of Rolla says ...”
• “"What's wrong with a 'model built structure, discipline, timeliness and respect for authority'?" Nothing, nothing at all, except those ...”
• “Some academics have never encountered a program they didn't want to initiate. We can't possibly have too many ...”
• “Melting glass batches containing glass cullet (ground recycled glass) uses less energy than if one melts the same batch made ...”
• “DK: When discussing major segments of electrical energy usage, let's not forget industrial processes. Examples are electric arc furnace ...”
• “How work is ORGANIZED - or the lack of proper organization - can also be an important factor. Sounds as if more ...”
• “"Virtue is its own reward." [Victorian era saying.] A similar notion can be expressed concerning conservation of electric energy. At ...”
• “Agree with Bearfield, but will reiterate my remark (first one on this thread): given some people's attitude and lack ...”
• “How many Senators, Congress persons, staffers, members of government agencies, lobbyists (we must DEFINITELY include lobbyists!) etc. send their progeny ...”
• “Actually, Fred, the problems posed by public school systems are now being solved continuously on a family-by-family basis. Where it ...”
• “If it ain't broke, don't fix it! [Old Phelps County Missouri saying.]”
• “"Private schools perform better because their students are often more advantaged, have greater parental oversight and involvement, and the school ...”
• “@ Corey Parks: "More money does not fix stupid." It most certainly doesn't, and you need to append your remark ...”
• “WOW! $30,000 a year? That seems outrageous. We've sent my two granddaughters through a Roman Catholic high school ...”
• “Must have been a slow day for news: this instructional premise has been held for a long time. It probably ...”
• “"How good our schools are depends upon how much we want to fund them." True, but only to a point ...”
• “Is this drawing any more contentious than having a tall, weather-eroded phallic symbol - repeated six (6) times? Gee! What could ...”
• “"So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities to their business activities other ...”
• “The only reason why anyone from Rolla (students, faculty, townspeople) would be on MO 42 would be either to get ...”
• “Interesting, Frank, that you've included George Washington Carver in your list. Carver did in fact secure an excellent higher ...”
• “Or you could matriculate on another University of Missouri System campus, where you never at any time LEAVE the real ...”
• “Agreed, Frank. To say the remark is harsh, especially since we apparently don't know the exact circumstances of the ...”
• “I agree with the caption for this column. Now, Karl, where do we find a truly civilized nation? There must ...”
• “I agree with the Bearfield and Foecking posts, immediately above, but am making a different point. There is a HIERARCHY ...”
• “Demand for electric power isn't constant throughout a 24-hour day. I once interviewed for a job in St. Louis ...”
• “Estimates of domestic electrical demand are readily available on line. We can treat any point (present or future) on the ...”
• “@ "Louis": Any relationship between formal education and common sense is at best poorly defined. Eric Hoffer, American (1902-1983), is considered ...”
• “Yes, John, they do, but there's one huge difference. They put their financial support where they WANT to put ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: I don't have the technical specs. for this project (they will be published in brief for our ...”
• “Isn't Sierra Club advising MU on means of generating MU's future power requirements? Thought I saw that in ...”
• “One of the easiest and most gratifying things to do in life is blame one's problems on everyone and ...”
• “Nobody is suggesting a nightly news cast or even a weekly or monthly news cast, although the campus has a ...”
• “A consideration is this: WHAT sales items are to be taxed? All of them, or just some? Excluding tax on ...”
• “This recalls a common saying from years ago: "Let George do it!" I'm told that "George" is supposed to ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: I agree with your thesis to a point. That point is that private schools have the ability to ...”
• “Proof positive there really IS a generation gap. But, Rose, training America's workers starts AT HOME, long before workers ...”
• “@ Louis Schneebaum: Well, Louis, it seems that KOMU doesn't agree with you. The lead for their 6 PM news ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: I watch channel 6.2, MHz Network, quite a bit. A point was made Sunday just hours prior ...”
• “Considering where ben Laden was living (country. locality), does Pakistan now have ANY remaining credibility in the war against terror ...”
• “"Why was a band from Hazelwood High brought in to play instead of a band from Columbia?" There could be ...”
• “April 29th must have been a VERY slow day for news. If one listens carefully he or she can hear ...”
• “@ Mark: While the functions are not the same, certain similarities can be drawn between costs of health care and the ...”
• “I Corinthians 13:11: "When I was a child. I used to speak as a child, reason as a child ...”
• “I agree with Bearfield. You could think of 10% as a "tithe to yourself." Back to George Kennedy. He might ...”
• “"...more than 60 percent of new hires don't stick around for even the 5 years required to vest in ...”
• “Underground coal mining is inherently dangerous under the best of conditions due to the fact that coal dust and air ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: I'm well aware that YOU are knowledgeable about these matters, but not everyone else is. Those most ...”
• “Hey, Ricky, no crying of rivers! Don't we have enough flooding as it is? :)”
• “@ Mark Foecking: I am well aware of the need to reduce production of carbon dioxide as a product of fuel ...”
• “Before shutting down any nuclear power plants we need to be certain we have enough power from other generation sources ...”
• “My post came about because the word "hypocrites" was used in an above post. Stokely appears to be calling liberals ...”
• “"What the liberal really wants is to bring about change which will not in any way endanger his position." - Stokely ...”
• “@ Mark & Frank: Said it before, and will say it again: Any rational energy policy for the future will NOT place ...”
• “@ Frank: A firm named Tauck (Google them) in the United States offers a fair selection of European river and canal ...”
• “The current discussion reminds me of cities in the Netherlands during the 1950s (and presumably the years before that). Bicycles ...”
• “Ya know, there could be a problem with this and some other threads that's neither journalistic nor political but ...”
• “Person #1 (to Person #2): "Have you heard about the awful things they're trying to do in this legislative ...”
• “Thank you, Karl, for presenting another interesting topic. If you hadn't chosen to matriculate at the wrong University of ...”
• “The costs, federally mandated, of adding and maintaining an employee fall disproportionally upon private businesses that have relatively few employees ...”
• “@ Ray Shapiro: Nice to see you're posting again. I have been reading some folks' recent posts - some of them ...”
• “Yes, things again this year will be difficult for graduating seniors having a number of different majors, but for some ...”
• “"If you build it, they will come." Does that only apply to baseball facilities or will it also apply to ...”
• “Agreed. To really appreciate this we need to go back to 1933 and the Great Depression. Some (perhaps all) of ...”
• “The Big 12 Conference, now having only 10 members, will no longer have a football championship game. The Big Ten ...”
• “John M. Nowell, III mentioned Hinkson Creek in a post above. This afternoon I received in my mail a magnificent ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: Think I'M a pessimist, Frank? Read Rose Nolen's column in this week's Missourian. Compared to ...”
• “No Frank, while I might LIKE to say that pretending is only associated with Democrats I cannot in good conscience ...”
• “Well, guys, while we debate the niceties of bicycles and the Sierra Club (Hinkson Creek), have you noticed what has ...”
• “Fred: As pointed out (jokingly) to our friend John Schultz in a post yesterday, there's NO problem here: money ...”
• “Proof positive that not only are there three other campuses in this so-called "system" (said campuses having a combined total ...”
• “Today's University of Missouri System trivia question: Which of the four campuses effectively gets TWO, separate spring breaks? Answer ...”
• “Yes, John Schultz, I was not only once part of corporate America but I'm not even repentant about it ...”
• “Marvelous! The pot calls the kettle black. [Old saying] :)”
• “Ah, but that's the point (also made recently by other posters): We (those of us in that car pool ...”
• “Well, Louis, perhaps it illustrates the point that you can't please everyone. No one requires that you like what ...”
• “Efflorescence (the name for the phenomenon) is a powder or stain sometimes found on the surfaces of ceramic masonry, resulting ...”
• “There's no doubt that fuel and money can be saved by car pooling, particularly if the daily commute is ...”
• “Which is more important, the medium or the information printed upon, or inscribed upon, or digitally displayed upon the medium ...”
• “@ Frank Christian: I tend to run for the hills when I hear anyone start talking about either "intellectual honesty" or ...”
• “@ Teddy Jensen: All proving that there may be some advantages to our having one University of Missouri System campus in ...”
• “You are not interrupting, Frank. Isn't there an old saying (there are LOTS of old sayings) about one man ...”
• “Rumor has it that a bunch of cars are going to show up from another UM System campus sporting bumper ...”
• “Another interesting thing about the Confederation of Helvecia (aka Switzerland): they were one of the last - if not the last ...”
• “My God, Michael, you've just characterized an entire American generation! Expand that into a novel and you'll be ...”
• “@ Kathy Snowberry: If you lived in Switzerland then you should be familiar with their interesting form of government: the FEDERAL ...”
• “You're correct, Michael, they DO talk funny. It's better to live here in the United States, where no ...”
• “If you want socialism here in North America that at least SORT OF works, consider moving to Canada. It's ...”
• “To understand why rail passenger service, current or potential, would probably be a financial loss in the United States, start ...”
• “Good comments, Michael. As one with some knowledge of confidence intervals, I'm tempted to cite the first rule of ...”
• “It's not the idea of a "single payer" that bothers me - it's WHO that "single payer" is obviously ...”
• “We are presently "paying for our own health insurance" whether we pay for it directly or whether the costs are ...”
• “Good point, Mark. It's almost certain that in dog breeding there is some optimal number of animals, beyond which ...”
• “Should read "1948," not "1048." Let's not go back to the approximate time of the Battle of Hastings.”
• “Is the United States of America so intellectually impoverished that it must be administered at its federal level by persons ...”
• “@ Tony Robertson: Too practical, Tony. Only esoteric suggestions will be accepted. :)”
• “If memory serves, University of North Dakota ran a hydrogen-powered car at the "Formula Sun" race in Topeka, Kansas in ...”
• “What the magnitude of the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes may have been is academically interesting, but what will be far ...”
• “I'm sure everyone loved the motion picture "Field of Dreams" and the saying that "If you build it, they ...”
• “I agree with Mark. On a list of considerations made by a high-tech (or low-tech) business as to whether or ...”
• “Earlier this week I was at "ground zero" for the currently hottest protest involving unions: the capitol building in Madison ...”
• “@wise won: I don't disagree with your comment but am fascinated by your "name." Are you of Chinese extraction ...”
• “Well done, Karl. I'm surprised no one has commented until now. First, an aside. The exec officer of the ...”
• “While we're "strolling down memory lane" let's also recall that only a few years ago there was a ...”
• “"But if Alden and the board weren't so erratic and damaging to MU's reputation..." I assume that "board ...”
• “If Vladimir Nabokov could create a character in his novel "Lolita" named Humbert Humbert I suppose we should not be ...”
• “Mizzou fans might want to access today's (4-4-11) "bleacher report," where they will find guest commentary by Sam Westmoreland ...”
• “"Technology has taken away our time to contemplate." No, WE'VE taken away our time to contemplate; technology is simply ...”
• “It will all be put right - if we can find someone who is willing to "bell the cat." There just ...”
• “Regarding cutting, indeed slashing, programs and dollars at the federal level, maybe it's time to again trot out a ...”
• “@ Tony Robertson: President Harry Truman, during the 1948 presidential campaign, addressed a group of university students on the subject of ...”
• “Fascinating! :)”
• “I too would like specific examples of science textbooks containing pictures of Christ, Scripture, etc. that are being used by ...”
• “@ John Schultz: Your comment is interesting to somebody who has seen both civilian and military aspects of engineering. Military engineering ...”
• “John, John! Have you no respect for geriatric white guys (like me)? I'm certain your mother raised you better ...”
• “The state giveth, and the state taketh away. Blessed is the power of the state! Alternate version: Give your soul ...”
• “Is the Missourian sports staff unfamiliar with Purdue's basketball history? Purdue has made the advanced rounds of the NCAA ...”
• “Matt Wilkinson: Discussions involving air, highway and rail freight transportation usually work better if we view each as a separate ...”
• “Two thoughts: 1- One of the great absurdities today is that "we're going to have a 'military action' but ...”
• “Michael Williams: Probably something along the lines of "We are living in a material world, and I am a material ...”
• “How many abandoned lines would be reactivated? NONE. How much "blue sky" rail line would need to be constructed? VERY ...”
• “@Michael Williams: I prefer some of those old United Miner Workers of America organizing songs myself. :)”
• “Railroad construction and and operation are very sensitive to GRADES. If you know that, you can appreciate why two of ...”
• “Thanks, Jack. Reduction in trucks would be almost entirely trucks now running long distances; local and regional trucking would be ...”
• “We should be glad that the first three principles of war WERE followed during World War II. Had they not ...”
• “Rail passenger traffic shouldn't be the only thing looked at: there are some definite advantages to increasing rail freight ...”
• “Well Mark, last week someone said, "these people [meaning MU's athletic programs] are the ones actually making money for ...”
• “"On Monday several names mentioned as replacements solidified their situations elsewhere." Why those disgusting, ungrateful wretches! How dare they! People ...”
• “@ Ricky: "We are living in a Spandex world And I am a Spandex girl." - Apologies to Madonna [Seriously, I think ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: The Sierra Club has already damned Hinkson Creek. Geez, Michael, I thought you kept up with these situations ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: They'll become serious when electrical generating capacity fails to keep up with demand! That's the direction ...”
• “One reason why we have some of the problems we have in primary and secondary education is past program changes ...”
• “"And glass is transparent." Technically, glass can be anything from transparent to opaque, depending upon its batch recipe, how it ...”
• “@ lucinda florez: Obviously, you are a realist. Good for you! We seem to have few realists around these days. :)”
• “Missouri's history with the Morrill Act can be summarized as follows: Missouri kept the bath water and threw out ...”
• “R-O-C-K C-H-A-L-K... What was that theory Sigmund Freud had concerning penis envy? Maybe the MU Psychology Department can explain it ...”
• “Kevin is correct. Iowa State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts, now Iowa State University of Science & Technology, was the first ...”
• “Well, Mary, there's another and VERY current way to look at this. Thanks to Mike Anderson we now find ...”
• “No disagreements here, Ricky. Tequila does exhibit in some people who drink it an oddity that apparently has nothing to ...”
• “Ricky: I believe the world record is two bottles of Tequila in a full hour, and the individual was completely ...”
• “@ Mary Douglass: I apologize for misspelling your last name in my previous post. A required course in university history could ...”
• “Option #4: We have an entire campus at this university system with Geeks (there are also some at MU) and ...”
• “@ Mary Douglas: Correct. University of Missouri is the oldest public university west of the Mississippi; MS&T is the oldest ...”
• “"...these people are the ones actually making money for the school so that this research can occur." Really? Where do ...”
• “@ Ricky: Never mind all that, Ricky, when/where is lunch? :) I don't care what anyone calls me as long ...”
• “You are welcome. I suspect, from a sample of one teenager (and her teenage work crew), that the persons who ...”
• “Contracts and agreements seem to be a problem. MU had an agreement (don't know if it was a contract ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: Your interpretation of my post is correct. Consider these institutions of higher learning: University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute ...”
• “So, another NCAA Division I basketball coach changes jobs. That's news, and needs to be reported as such, but ...”
• “I'm sure it will be a great experience for those who participate. One of the Protestant churches has a ...”
• “In a real sense it makes little difference how this particular round turns out, because it has served to "lift ...”
• “In some far future millennia, archaeologists may excavate the buried ruins of the city of Columbia, Missouri and the institutions ...”
• “@ Ricky Gurley: I'm flattered, but I think you credit me with far more influence than I have. :) If I ...”
• “This would appear to rule out "promotion from within." Does Deaton have have business qualifications (outside academia)? John Carney, MS ...”
• “I withdraw my previous statement that all she needs to do is go to a hardware store and buy a ...”
• “I'll believe we today have motion picture stars who are actors when they can make motion pictures like "A ...”
• “The Canadians might well kick the crap out of us (with hockey sticks). Fortunately, except when in an ice rink ...”
• “@ Ricky Gurley: Ricky said, "We have to keep at least one fair-minded and reasonable person at the table." And who ...”
• “The first time I ever flew in a large airplane was with MATS (Military Air Transport Service), operated by the ...”
• “@ Lancelot Lightfoot: The fact that one has a granddaughter in college is not a guarantor of one's age. In ...”
• “Any time for lunch, Ricky, any time. I believe John has my phone number, but it's also in the ...”
• “@ Ricky: Good for Sir Isaac! I'll drink a bottle of George Killian's Red Lager (now brewed in the ...”
• “@ John: There was once a commercial, definitely locally produced, on one of our area TV stations that featured an argument ...”
• “Actually, 70 mph is pushing it from a safety standpoint. Are you familiar with Newton's Laws of Motion? Many ...”
• “OK, so no more nukes, but maybe we should get busy at increasing electric generating capacity by other means BEFORE ...”
• “Thank you. Perhaps I need to label my sarcastic posts as such. That MU's gap represents "roughly half" of ...”
• “Well, Lancelot (I assume I may address you as "Lancelot," whereas you may now address me as "Joe Miner"), since ...”
• “Jim Nasium? Never met him, but I know his cousin, Ray Curlawn. Never had the pleasure of meeting Oral Roberts ...”
• “No doubt the faculty at UMKC, UMSL and MS&T are lining up to jump on this bandwagon. (Actually, there ...”
• “One assumes that shortfalls also exist at the other UM System campuses. If they don't, that would truly be ...”
• “@ Frank: I'm not going to tell you you're off base. I come from an era where it was ...”
• “You were probably learning Spanish as it is spoken in Mexico. My experience is that an Argentine, Colombian, Costa Rican ...”
• “Does anyone remember the 1959 motion picture "The Mouse That Roared," starring Peter Sellers? There's a great scene in ...”
• “Thanks for the information. Last time I checked I was male. Ellis is a reasonably common surname in the United ...”
• “Our military has had immersion language schools for years, to which selected persons are sent. The programs are intense, but ...”
• “I believe the faculty belonging to the only undergraduate Nuclear Engineering program in UM System would fully agree with the ...”
• “Are we going to attack the disease itself or argue about how we should treat its symptoms? Some level of ...”
• “I suppose we are to assume that "Yves Montclear" and "Lancelot Lightfoot" are real names. I'm willing to buy ...”
• “It's fascinating that in an economy where we have the degree of unemployment we do there are occupations with ...”
• “Is the name shown on the second post a person's real name? When were the Missourian's rules suspended ...”
• “It's very difficult for some of us who hold degrees from NCAA Division II and Division III colleges and ...”
• “Is Doug La Follette in any way related to the grand old La Follette family of Wisconsin? When I was ...”
• “Correction to my previous post. The publisher is Dover Publications, Inc. www.DoverPublications.com Dover publishes children's books, adult ...”
• “We do what we can, George. It's only been 141 years since MU was the only campus of University ...”
• “Don't fret, Ricky. While you may not be a "thing of beauty" you are most definitely "a joy forever." :)”
• “Yes, John, I am familiar with Bimbo. It's pretty hard not to be. Some brands don't "translate" well ...”
• “Paul & J. Karl: Maybe things need some lightening up, especially as regards "moron." In metro Buenos Aires there's a ...”
• “Brinkley's suggestion is excellent, and that reasoning might be applied at all UM System campuses. My oldest granddaughter is ...”
• “Sounds great - as long as it stays at MU. There's no reason why UMKC, UMSL or MS&T students ...”
• “You are correct. Hopefully everyone will get over being insulted. Actually I don't mind Scotch; it's Bourbon that ...”
• “Sounds good, George, and a good article. We have no trouble agreeing as long as you don't get on ...”
• “@ DK: Your last paragraph (post time 4:12 pm) is a classic, starting with the word "We... Howard Pyle, a ...”
• “I'm back on my medications, Paul, isn't it time you did the same? John Schultz: What you suggest ...”
• “I'm going to p*** some people off by mentioning another Sarah (this time with an "h"): former State Senator ...”
• “"Ram PV," is that a legitimate name? Having worked in Trinidad & Tobago. where a high percentage of the citizens are ...”
• “"At least I won't have to worry that you might be on the voter rolls for another 78 years ...”
• “I believe I've struck a nerve. And on a nice day, etc. What's this "with your name" jazz ...”
• “One learns something new (and useful?) every day. Apparently Texas Tech isn't the only institution of higher learning in ...”
• “Part of Japan is in a rolling blackout mode right now, due to loss of electrical generating capacity. It was ...”
• “We do have our fair share of inept, stupid, morally decayed lardasses, don't we. :) We also had them before ...”
• “Some of us were actually alive during the Great Depression. Mark is correct: it is universally agreed by historians and ...”
• “Let's list some generation processes that DON'T create carbon dioxide (or if they generate any, it's of ...”
• “"Doc Rock." What a cool name, but is it your real one? C'mon, Missourian, enforce your rule.”
• “@ John Schultz: Downsize the federal government? When pigs can fly! Well, it's the same with higher education: a surprising ...”
• “In English this is true. In Spanish the question marks appear at both the beginning and end of the question ...”
• “The status of the cooling circuits and the pumps that make them effective is every bit as critical as the ...”
• “Yes, and I've commented on this point ad nauseum, we are drowning in laws and regulations (federal, state) and ...”
• “Some of us are waiting for a spate of commentary and letters damning the building of additional nuclear electric power ...”
• “Thank you for making my recommended change in the wording of this article. Both local newspapers seem to have a ...”
• “@ Tony: Our economy has changed and is continuing to change for multiple reasons. One reason why old line industrial unions ...”
• “Fortunately, few American nuclear power reactors are located where tsunamis could be a problem. Some are located in earthquake zones ...”
• “Abridgements of free speech constitute a slippery slope. Once you start, where do you stop? As distasteful as some of ...”
• “Thank you, Tony, but I think the idea of my writing a column for this newspaper is not a good ...”
• “John L. Lewis did something that few if any labor leaders - and probably NO politicions, of any stripe - would dare ...”
• “Bill Cosby Thomas Sowell Walter E. Williams Three great contemporary black Americans, all saying the same thing (phrased in different ...”
• “This is not a one-shoe-fits all situation. Unions such as the United Mine Workers of America and the United Steel ...”
• “You can please all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time ...”
• “Maybe in a couple more centuries we can have a "One University of Missouri System" initiative. We certainly don't ...”
• “Marvelous! Perhaps after the passage of another two centuries we can even have a "One University of Missouri System" initiative ...”
• “Good point, Rick. My post - admittedly somewhat esoteric - was more aimed at the relationships (or serious lack of any) between ...”
• “".. I don't want to hear the other person's side of the story." There's a lot of that ...”
• “Whatever the punishment, it's the state's (individual states, and in some cases the federal government) responsibility to carry ...”
• “University of Missouri System already has one team playing in a March national basketball tournament. MS&T's Lady Miners ...”
• “@Mark Foecking: Surely an observant and savvy person like yourself has noticed that "austerity" is a relative term. Perhaps the ...”
• “Interesting use of the word "bigotry." Apparently the test has been available in eleven languages. How many languages are currently ...”
• “Agreed. Might one ask what the last minute or minutes of the convicted murder's victim(s) life were like ...”
• “Several of the improvements you cite don't appear to involve classrooms, which was the only item I referred to ...”
• “The United States of America is sitting atop a huge reserve of fossil fuel. It just doesn't happen to ...”
• “"If you build it, they will come." [Sadly, "Field of Dreams," the motion picture set near Dyersville, Iowa has finally ...”
• “In the days when large unions meant organizations like the UMWA, USWA, IBEW, etc., attaching labels like "spoiled brat*" would ...”
• “White bucks! I recall them, and the clothing worn by women at MU, William Woods, Lindenwood, Washington U., SMS, etc ...”
• “"A camel is a horse that was designed by committee." - Old saying.”
• “Well, Ricky, looks like you need to get ready to go stand in the corner. Great! You'll find others ...”
• “"...the Missourian is a lost cause." Seems a bit harsh. The Missourian is far from perfect, but so are the ...”
• “Small technical point: the United States of America is not a democracy, it's a republic. When we pledge our ...”
• “If you were to consult a professor of American history at MU he or she might tell you that politics ...”
• “This letter and some of the arguments being made over this matter ignore the patently obvious: no law and/or ...”
• “@Frank: It's not protected by copyright, so feel free to use it as necessary or desired.”
• “@Frank: I was certain it had to be when Oakland, the Jets and Kansas City were the hot teams in ...”
• “@Frank: Are you certain you have the correct year for the infamous Raiders-Jets broadcast fiasco? I remember the game, but ...”
• “My aunt received her bachelor's degree in music at KU many years ago. When I was settling her estate ...”
• “Any student of contemporary Latin American "democracy" is aware of what happened in the latter part of the 20th Century ...”
• “Ain't technology grand! :)”
• “How droll.”
• “A tax based on how many miles you drive? So how is that to be determined? I mean the miles ...”
• “@Frank: I haven't lived in Europe for over 50 years, but the shortage of local natural asphalt isn't ...”
• “There are differences between running for President and BEING President. O'Bummer did a masterful job of running for President ...”
• “@Frank: It is difficult or impossible to factor the costs of litigation into "cost estimates." They cannot be accurately estimated ...”
• “For many years a canoe club in Kansas City has held an annual family float on the Current River on ...”
• “@David: In your post of March 3, 2011 at 8:18 pm you did not include my name with those ...”
• “Well Mark, you've stated the case so well I have only little to say. Driving forces in process development ...”
• “The generic term is "animal husbandry." I've always found the term humorous (there are probably more than a few ...”
• “Hank & Mark: How about one of the most famous examples of lack of maintenance. Management at Three Mile Island was ...”
• “This is WAY too complicated! If the politician's mouth is open and words are issuing from it you've ...”
• “It's very difficult to win a conference basketball tournament if you have to play on Thursday as well as ...”
• “Only if I can park in one of the first four levels. I suffer from vertigo.”
• “St. Paul informs us in the New Testament that "...all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory."* The ...”
• “Missouri University of Science & Technology dropped their men's golf program several years ago, for similar reasons. Many universities and ...”
• “@ DK: Agreed, but somehow I doubt that the "evil oil companies" are cowering in some dark corner, frightened that consumers ...”
• “What this discussion boils down to is the issue of primacy. Seems to me that having the ability to petition ...”
• “@Derick Fogle: Technically the federal government is not the only entity that could "pull off" a new refinery. (If the ...”
• “Discussions about shortages of refined petroleum products tend to center on problems or potential problems with petroleum sources and ignore ...”
• “@Tom de Plume: Your point is a good one, but we are dealing with a genuine force of nature. This ...”
• “Most of the counties in far northern Missouri have been losing population for years. It's difficult to see how ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking: Two points. First vehicles operated using compressed natural gas have been around for years. There don't seem ...”
• “This is hardly a new concept: similar trains have operated or are operating here in the Midwest (e.g., Minnesota ...”
• “It's French. Americans experience problems with French titles, place names, etc. In Pennsylvania, "DuBois" [due.bwaw] is pronounced "due ...”
• “After pondering the subject for at least 35 nanoseconds it seems to me that the VENUE where this "match" occurs ...”
• “In the late 1970s and at least the early 1980s the astronomy club met at the observatory belonging to the ...”
• “This topic should garner a few comments. I can see valid arguments both ways. You're coming up with some ...”
• “It will be interesting to learn how the entire business of reintroducing a large, wild, heavy, free-roaming ruminant herbivore species ...”
• “@david smith: Nice bit of sarcasm. Let's invite all the axe murderers over for tea, and we can join ...”
• “One of Missouri's current "features" is that like a number of states it's close to being broke.”
• “@Eric Cox: Very well put! Also, there will be a cost associated with establishing and carrying out the proposed "sensitivity ...”
• “Unless or until similar racist acts happen at UMKC. UMSL or MS&T one would hope the proposed addition of ...”
• “Twice in 12 months at the same UM System campus is mildly interesting. Hopefully we aren't looking at the ...”
• “If something - particularly something expensive - is going to be done it certainly makes sense to first have a clear and ...”
• “With apologies to DK I would summarize some of his remarks as follows: To the technically and/or economically ignorant ...”
• “It's unfortunate that the testimony of Truman State University was not mentioned in the original Missourian article. (Well, those ...”
• “"A primary source of budget reductions for the universities has been the elimination of academic degree programs." Oh, really? You ...”
• “Meanwhile, electrical demand in the United States continues to grow annually. When brownouts and blackouts start happening maybe they will ...”
• “@ John Schultz: Most sane people wouldn't consider use of a shotgun to kill a few flies, but we may ...”
• “Students who truly belong at a university shouldn't need this; the others shouldn't be at the university in ...”
• “A key factor when considering fuels for combustion is what's called "caloric value" of a fuel. In the United ...”
• “@ Amber Hanneken: I agree with you. I seriously doubt whether such a requirement, if imposed, would stand up in court ...”
• “National individual identity cards (with photos) have been in use in democracies in Europe and elsewhere for years. They are ...”
• “University of Missouri did not admit black students until 1949. That in no way fits the profile of a typical ...”
• “Hopefully, we aren't looking at the start of an annual celebration (February 2010, February 2011). Also, there seems to ...”
• “Well, Mark, maybe Hy-Vee will decide to lease the old Osco store as yet another Hy-Vee location. They're slowly ...”
• “Carolyn Orbann: Lots of luck getting that information! Actually, the dollar savings may not be great, but that doesn't ...”
• “A person may own a dog but a person cannot own a cat. If you disbelieve this, ask any cat. :)”
• “" - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - " [Among the low-producing degree programs.] How utterly surprising! No surprise that there will be no ...”
• “How many programs will University of Missouri System drop?”
• “Both American and international literary critics have long cited Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" as being the finest example of ...”
• “The problem is this: Once censorship begins, where does it end? Some one or some group will always come up ...”
• “As has been pointed out in prior comments, Union Pacific hauls a lot of coal as "unit" (all same cargo ...”
• “Allow MU students the option of making up one of those snow days on Saturday, March 12th by attending the ...”
• “Other than those items, Rose, do you detect any problems? By the way, our public school systems are locally and ...”
• “Carbon sequestered in limestone (and dolomite) is liberated when making clinker for Portland cement. It happens during the burning process ...”
• “"The EPA's recommendations for Potash Brook have not yet been implemented." After how many years?”
• “Corey, that's very sad. Engineering students, whether at MS&T, Washington University or MU, bleed for you! I'm ...”
• “"One of the main obstacles to implementation is cost, Tom DePietro, stormwater superintendent for South Burlington [Vermont] said. The questions ...”
• “The problems which have lead to the current riots were present when I was working in Egypt in 1990, and ...”
• “Insufficient information! Note that the placement of each of the four UM System campuses against its "peer group" is given ...”
• “Clara Allen: You may be correct about Rolla's population being too small, but a pretty good case can be ...”
• “Most - possibly all - Protestants and Jews are non-Catholic. :) Eastern Orthodox Catholics do not follow the same church calendar as Roman ...”
• “If one looks at an aerial photo array of downtown Columbia and the nearby MU campus one gets the impression ...”
• “Michael Williams: Cool! And you guys actually HAD a gymnasium. Seriously, these things are often as good as what you ...”
• “Ricky: Just a reminder that it is entirely possible to be both a soldier AND an engineer (example: U.S ...”
• “The sentiment is good, and realization of some actual jobs would definitely be good, but is it too much to ...”
• “An even larger reduction would be possible if instead of "woody biomass" the switch were to geothermal; however, that may ...”
• “What were the declared majors of the students? (One assumes they weren't all of the same major.) Were any ...”
• “@John Schultz: It's Colonel, John, not Major. Otherwise I agree with your comments. It was interesting watching how the ...”
• “Actually, Terry, "potable" refers to a premium gain alcohol distilled deep in the woods down in Shannon County, Missouri. It ...”
• “@Traci Wilson-Kleekamp: It's all that navel contemplation, Traci: they become VERY short-sighted. Indeed, they become myopic. :) This University System ...”
• “It's been 140 years since a second campus was added to University of Missouri, but obviously nothing has changed ...”
• “Right on, Maria! A primary historical concept of public higher eduction is being turned upside down. We realize that you ...”
• “http://news.mst.edu/2010/01/missouri_st_chancellor_receive.html Would he make a good university president? He's not particularly "political ...”
• “Deaton for University President? Oh, please! The most honored (by his peers) chancellor at this university isn't located at ...”
• “I was alive during the 1950s, and I lived both inside and outside the United States. The 1950s weren't ...”
• “Agree with Andrew. It's surprising that in the Twenty-First Century people keep making such errors, and they aren't ...”
• “Columbine High School, Virginia Tech and this latest episode do have at least one thing in common: in each case ...”
• “@ Nathan Stephens: May I add two names to your list? Thomas Sowell (Stanford University). Sowell is considered by some to ...”
• “@Dieter: Your question pretty much answers itself; however, how much longer are we going to pretend that NCAA Division I ...”
• “Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" has long been considered America's greatest contribution to prose literature (America's greatest novel). It ...”
• “Not certain whether a list is posted somewhere on the site, but the UM System web site would be one ...”
• “Seems the logical course for him to take, given the circumstances. It wouldn't have been a good thing to ...”
• “Hopefully the reconstruction will be swift. It's unlikely folks in Columbia, Kansas City or St. Louis appreciate the economic ...”
• “George, it appears we have at least two situations in play. You have addressed one of them, and it's ...”
• “@Derrick Fogle: We performed that "inflation calculation" a while back in the Tribune and obtained a somewhat higher "theoretical current ...”
• “I'm certain, David, that you could write a weekly column in perpetuity about the foibles of various state legislatures ...”
• “I did that nearly two years ago and I use my powered antenna exclusively as a TV signal source to ...”
• “No doubt, Karl, you will end up on some body's "list," but there are worse situations. Please continue writing.”
• “I went the route you suggest. I have a powered indoor antenna and get several digital channels, including KOMU and ...”
• “Christopher Foote: Agreed. We are also caught in what has become a self-induced trap: the considerable expense involved in just ...”
• “I agree, Mark. Regardless of what we may think of them the current Chinese government has done an excellent job ...”
• “Actually, deer are a principal natural food source for mountain lions. Elk, due to be introduced into a three county ...”
• “Regarding my previous comment: Obviously the catch basins cannot be both natural and man-made. Typically man-made, although I've seen ...”
• “Given that gasoline is a commodity, what SHOULD the price in 2011 be, relative to the value of one dollar ...”
• “@Derrick Fogle: It seems to me we are in agreement. Identifying what Pareto analysis calls "the vital few" and going ...”
• “Are we interested in achieving the POSSIBLE in some reasonable amount of time, or are we more interested in fighting ...”
• “I agree with Gregg Johnston. It's ritual for the National Anthem do be played (and sort of sung) at ...”
• “How does that old saying go? "Only occasionally accurate, but never in doubt." :)”
• “While non-legislative "propositions" have enjoyed a certain amount of popularity in recent years, using them as a substitute for legislative ...”
• “According to radio station WHO, Des Moines, Iowa, Iowa and Nebraska will play the final game of Iowa's 2011 ...”
• “Remember, the initial ruling on the field always stands - unless there's clear evidence on review that the initial call ...”
• “We will learn the true disposition of the new Congress after the new Congress convenes. Until then, it's probably ...”
• “The "line" as of Christmas on this game was Missouri by 3 points. The odds-makers had the 3 points correct ...”
• “What we have here, folks, is a failure to communicate: somebody should have told the Hawkeyes they were supposed to ...”
• “I'm reminded of how in the past certain things just weren't done by reputable journalists. Franklin Roosevelt was ...”
• “Let's filter this change down to University of Missouri System, where the number of Curators will be reduced from ...”
• “@ John (and Rose): I was very despondent, but my friends gathered around me and they all said, "Cheer up, things ...”
• “Concerned about a collision with a deer, Rose? You're aware I assume that some nice folks are going to ...”
• “Ms. Ralls: Are you familiar with the collected plays of William Shakespeare? Your tirades remind me of the title of ...”
• “Yet another campus first.”
• “I keep coming back to this item, because some things don't add up, especially since Missouri University of Science ...”
• “May we assume that all four campuses of University of Missouri System are currently hard at work making similar consolidations?”
• “We appear to have reached the first of two critical "tipping points" regarding print and broadcast journalism: The public is ...”
• “"Whine" for "wine," I assume. There was sufficient whining over being "shut out" earlier this year to last for a ...”
• “Article sounds distinctly like a lot of sour grapes by some football fan whose university didn't get invited to ...”
• “This could have repercussions beyond "Obamacare." Exactly what, if anything, can the federal government compel its citizens to buy, and ...”
• “An important consideration to keep in mind is that no program or programs, even if successful, are apt to show ...”
• “So, the concept of decoupling tuition rates at the four campuses, first proposed during the Floyd administration, may come to ...”
• “Missourian Editors & Reporters: One University of Missouri System campus in June of 2010 mailed a brochure to its individual and ...”
• “@Justin: You're right, either you know the basics or you don't. I did three night school courses at ...”
• “Paul said: "They flunk students at Rolla." .................................................... Assuming you aren't referring to Rolla High School (where rumor has it ...”
• “Zach Pyrite: "What is my advantage to completing my degree if I cannot find a job with adequate pay to ...”
• “Not too long ago there was an interesting discussion in the Tribune as to why it takes so long these ...”
• “I was getting to like Jack Hamm, and am glad to see him reinstated. I'd wondered what happened to ...”
• “It's difficult not to notice that this furor has erupted just as NASA faces serious reductions in funding and ...”
• “We have at least one expert on the subject of "information retreival" in Columbia. He is not connected with the ...”
• “This "hall monitor" wanted to stir up a hornet's nest, and it appears he has succeeded. I definitely agree ...”
• “I'd sooner spend my leisure time drinking at one of the Boone county roadhouses (with guys with Skoal cans ...”
• “Houston, Texas, AP: NASA officials announced today that the result their six year orbiting satellite probe of the state of ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: 1- The 2010 MU football team is very bit as good as its win-loss record indicates. There is ...”
• “William Moore: Speaking of interviews and bowl games, the Big Ten conference once had a rule that no conference champion ...”
• “@ Michael Williams: Odd you should mention that, as Ohio State one year arbitrarily took themselves out of the running for ...”
• “Louis may be correct in his assessment of this bowl game. A friend of mine, with degrees from Penn State ...”
• “It's probably a coincidence, but the look on Mark Alnutt's face seems to say it all. :) If not ...”
• “Well, Sir Billington, if that's your REAL name then mine is Cam Newton (Heisman Trophy candidate). Play by the ...”
• “10-2 plays 7-5. WOW! They told me it would be so, but I refused to believe it. Iowa lost their ...”
• “Hey, Missourian, are you going to enforce your rule about having to post using real names or not? Perhaps more ...”
• “Or you could install a playoff system, as is used for Division IAA and Division II. That system may also ...”
• “"We have long since discovered that nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program. - Former President Ronald Reagan (1992)”
• “You are correct, Sherry, but these events also need to be CAREFULLY viewed in the context of REVENUE (from bowl ...”
• “I agree with Amy. Both of my granddaughters attend(ed) a private high school. The amount of homework assignments posted ...”
• “@JGuy: South Dakota State, huh. We (a Division II football team) played a game against South Dakota State [then a ...”
• “Walked into one of Columbia's better-known "watering holes" today and they asked me if I thought MU and Iowa ...”
• “Louis: For some years now, at both the May and December graduation exercises we do something unique. All persons receiving ...”
• “It's nice that the first degree will be awarded at the December graduation ceremony. May graduation ceremonies at MS ...”
• “George: Looks like it's time to again quote the late Harry Truman (who was, I believe, a Democrat): "If ...”
• “George, this is not a banana* republic: we have what's called "representative government" here. Voters have expressed their preference ...”
• “Regardless of what anyone has said, positively or negatively, about Gary Forsee's term as President we should all extend ...”
• “Sapphire Blue, perhaps someone needs to point out that whereas the Tribune is a private, for-profit enterprise the Missourian is ...”
• “Louis, I don't use my cell phone while driving. To do so would be almost as irresponsible as attempting ...”
• “Don: I will certainly agree with you on General Chesty Puller, USMC, and George Washington Carver. Too bad the latter ...”
• “"The people who hold public office today are no better, no worse than the people that send them to public ...”
• “Well, Nelson Richter, if Sarah Steelman is Missouri's answer to Sarah Palin then maybe we should clone Sarah Steelman ...”
• “It appears that our university curators are willing to financially back more than one novel approach to university power generation ...”
• “John: Ms. Nolen is infamous for not assigning a name to "the elephant present in the room." She and Professor ...”
• “A more aggressive pre-conference schedule might improve bowl prospects. Playing the equivalent of "Little Sisters of the Poor" for your ...”
• “Let them introduce the elk, then wait until the first fatal (to humans) automobile accident occurs. Charge ALL officers of ...”
• “Agree with Mark Foecking except for his last paragraph. Coal is indeed a problem if burned as it presently is ...”
• “"Protected zone." That's nice, but who will protect the elk (and motorists) from collisions with motor vehicles, which weren ...”
• “1- What's wrong with having BOTH "clean energy" AND another nuclear plant? Define "clean." The nuclear plant emits no ...”
• “@ Yves Montclear: I assume that you refer to petroleum coke. There is also metallurgical coke, which is derived from coal ...”
• “Well, allow me to muddy up the water a bit more. There is also something called combustion stoichiometry. Some of ...”
• “I doubt, Mark, that your home heating requirements will seriously impair those of University of Missouri System. :) Large quantities (in ...”
• “Last September a small celebration was held on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus. It was the 50th ...”
• “It appears that while many of us - including alumni who are not System faculty - are less than enamoured with this ...”
• “Apparently the laws governing combustion chemistry, and the simple chemical equations involved, get suspended when one crosses the Missouri River ...”
• “The legal profession has an absolutely wonderful expression: "res ipsa loquitur." "The thing speaks for itself." I've had some ...”
• “Silicon dioxide and lithium carbonate are two mainstays of the ceramic industry. However, only some silica sources have the purity ...”
• “Gee, Mark, I know you to be a rather busy person. Do you have time to "thoroughly review" the material ...”
• “Judging from some of the names involved, this appears to be the latest chapter in a "soap opera" that the ...”
• “Thank you David. We sincerely do value your opinion. Ours are honest-to-goodness parades, with civilian and military (United States Army ...”
• “Why NOT parades, David? For 102 consecutive years a University of Missouri System campus has held annual parades; not one ...”
• “To paraphrase Shakespeare, "let's kill all the engineers and accountants." How DARE those awful and disgusting people rain on ...”
• “Amy Vandergriff-Belcher: joeminer(Tribune)= Ellis Smith (Missourian). "Joe Miner" is both a registered mame and logo. Only a few college ...”
• “This is a democracy, and you have every right to act like a jerk if you wish to do so ...”
• “Same comment as for similar questions in the past(such as the condom issue). Since 1963 this university has had ...”
• “How much revenue generated by some fast food outlets is strictly the result of clever (and incessant) advertising and how ...”
• “Agreed. I find the concern about "undercutting parental authority" a bit laughable. In families where parental authority is habitually absent ...”
• “We assume the Missourian, a "teaching newspaper," is paying close attention to what's currently going on at the Tribune ...”
• “If I hit a deer with my sedan before 2011 I'll be happy to share the meat! I plan ...”
• “Several "agents" can cause lung diseases, including lung cancers, and it isn't always evident whether lung illnesses have been ...”
• “Gee, Rose, are we to assume that only those who grew up "in a working class neighborhood" have, or at ...”
• “You're right, John, but it's not the number of legislators that counts, it's their SIZE. :) [We'll ...”
• “There are at least two things one is certain to see when driving in rural Wisconsin: trucks with stainless steel ...”
• “Andrew: In the past we've disagreed on various matters, but I agree that no matter what person or group ...”
• “Mistake No. 1: PRETENDING your campus is actually dry, just because you've announced that it is. Elsewhere in this ...”
• “Hey, if Iowa State University still has a reasonable chance of playing in a post season football game (the "Toilet ...”
• “As a matter of honesty, anyone commenting on cigarettes or cigarette taxes should divulge their personal history with tobacco products ...”
• “If the present explosion of the state's deer population continues it will be possible to walk from Kansas City ...”
• “The problem faced by O'Bummer and his entourage is the presence of those damnable Evangelical Christians! As our Former ...”
• “Why not play someone with even the smallest chance of challenging you? Since when is Columbia, Missouri home of a ...”
• “Depending upon the quantities ingested, and the frequency of ingestion, alcohol can act as a depressant. The sequence typically goes ...”
• “Perhaps this will clarify matters: in every profession or "calling" there are only a few persons who truly rate being ...”
• “To the Missourian watchdogs: Does "ok shin" sound like a name that belongs to a real person? If "ok shin ...”
• “This was one Democrat we might have kept in office. He made the mistake of sampling a drop or two ...”
• “"Nevertheless, it would be a serious error in judgement to attribute this drubbing of Democrats to any warm and fuzzy ...”
• “@ John Schultz In my experience, bigotry is something only OTHER people have, NOT MOI!”
• “The day before the election I was called out to fight a three alarm manufacturing quality "fire." Thanks, Columbians for ...”
• “For once (mark your calendars) I agree with Gregg Bush. In law, your credentials to be an "expert witness" often ...”
• “Golly! On the same Saturday in Austin, Texas the Iowa State Cyclones defeated the Texas Longhorns in an upset. Thank ...”
• “Still considering Proposition A, but will vote NO on Proposition B. BTW, "42" when displayed on a solar-powered racing vehicle ...”
• “@ Ray Shapiro: I'm totally envious. I can't even remember when I was 57. I think I was working ...”
• “@ Prof atlarge: If you have something worth saying, why don't you put your real name on it? Come on ...”
• “@ Anonymous Legion: Without satisfactory enforcement no "tightening" of existing law or regulations will be effective. That's not just for ...”
• “What is disturbing is that these changes, improvements, consolidations, etc. only seem to become important and to actually be undertaken ...”
• “NCAA Division III has no athletic scholarship aid, so this situation applies only to Division I and Division II. Seems ...”
• “First, this is an historic occasion: David Rosman and Ellis Smith agree on something. This situation (tasers) I see as ...”
• “Don't know, Ray, but that would definitely be ONE orifice in which to insert the sword. There are others ...”
• “Swords are only acceptable if concealed, WHICH MEANS YOU MUST STICK THEM SOMEWHERE. We can't have one standard for ...”
• “Thank you, Jake. The debate seems to have become more personal and, as you say, emotional. I also posit that ...”
• “This has reached the point of being ridiculous. I should talk? That's exactly the point, I have experience with ...”
• “Nice piece, Tom. So, let's see where everybody will be this Saturday. You apparently are going to be here ...”
• “Maybe we should vote on a proposition to ban ceremonial swords. They're dangerous, you know.”
• “Just noticed something interesting about the caption assigned to the letter. With a one word change it could sum up ...”
• “@ cat1 minder: Unfortunately, that's not how bureaucracies operate, whether they are located in Jefferson City or Columbia or elsewhere ...”
• “I'd make it broader than Halloween and the very good comments made above. We are depriving our children (both ...”
• “@ Jake Sherlock: My remark concerned only the respective PROPOSALS being made. Let the students pack concealed weapons, but take away ...”
• “It's been an interesting few says here in this newspaper. On one hand we've had arguments that having ...”
• “@ Andrew Hansen: I couldn't agree more. Same for excessive use of capitalized letters (versus capital letters along with lower ...”
• “I'm not familiar with Bishop Eddie Long, but I'm probably correct in assuming he's not Lutheran. That ...”
• “It is likely that every major religion has or has had its share of "embarrassments." Our Muslim brothers here in ...”
• “Having an approved, written procedure for degree revocation seems reasonable and proper. Are there also other issues the faculty council ...”
• “This isn't very specific. The Columbia Tribune article specifically mentions revocation for cheating, and notes the case of a ...”
• “How long has MU been in business? During that time, how many firearms-related deaths have occurred on the campus? Suicides ...”
• “Promotion of this project appears to have been less than totally honest.”
• “There are at least two reasons why it would be a bad idea for the university - that's the university ...”
• “Anyone who intends to have only Social Security payments as their source of retirement income will find themselves between a ...”
• “This matter has come up before, and my comment is the same now that it was then. If MU wants ...”
• “It's only wrong when the other side does it. Grown up people acting like children quarreling in a sandbox ...”
• “What would you have Mr. Sinquefield do with his fortune? The easiest thing in the world is to spend someone ...”
• “Drivers licenses are the prerogative of individual states. It's been years since I've needed to obtain a drivers ...”
• “An interesting day for TV spectators and a great day for miners worldwide.”
• “@ Ray Shapiro: Thanks for the URL reference (Blunt vs. Carnahan). I don't think I'd describe Carnahan in quite ...”
• “Where is there a "smart decision" when we are faced with "Little Miss Muffet" versus "The Frog Prince" in the ...”
• “Why was the rescue shaft drilled so much faster than the initial estimate? At the time of the cave in ...”
• “Thanks for the URL, Ray. I find the "paying" part a bit repulsive, as did one person who posted a ...”
• “Ain't "social change" wonderful? Hopefully we can find time to teach students what 2+2 equals and the difference ...”
• “Good points, Rick. You mentioned one thing I feel needs further comment. I, at my present great age, continue to ...”
• “Deans? MS&T used to have those folks. How did they reorganize? Maybe some enterprising reporter should come to Rolla ...”
• “Psst! Ray Shapiro Here's a life-sized statue MU or the City of Columbia can buy for HALF the price ...”
• “Being subjected to a continuing litany about how everyone (well, ALMOST everyone) hates and/or bullies others does little to ...”
• “This became an issue several years ago at some public technical institutes. Graduation rates in engineering had historically been low ...”
• “First, this is an excellent summary of potential problems with elk release. Missourians (and the Conservation Commission) should look carefully ...”
• “This will make the Missouri-Nebraska football game "special" for both teams. A Nebraska win, and Nebraska remains in the top ...”
• “@ Craig Hill: I'll certainly consider your advice, but I need some input from you. Who or what is "Tes ...”
• “Disease is discussed, but not the probabilities of serious collisions between motor vehicles and elk. Yes, these are less populous ...”
• “"I consider anyone, any group, any organization to be "terroristic" in nature when they are out to destroy, close down ...”
• “Some one once described Chinese cuisine as having "origins in scarcity." As everyone has observed, Oriental cooking typically consists of ...”
• “How long does it take to get past something? The death of a spouse, child or other family member, or ...”
• “It's these situations that enable us to separate universities that have class from universities with no class. How many ...”
• “If I were a Missouri Tiger football fan I most definitely wouldn't hold my breath while waiting for an ...”
• “1- Anyone who has been a high school math teacher for 23 years deserves a place in Heaven, even if ...”
• “"This is happening on a much faster deadline than any of us would like..." Translation from "academic speak" to plain ...”
• “@ Ray Shapiro: If the present law is good (and I'm not arguing that it isn't) then if there ...”
• “For those with a truly Machiavellian turn of mind, the ideal outcome in November would be that Republicans do win ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking "No hope, no joy..." I thought you were discussing Rose Nolen's latest column (or, come to think ...”
• “Here's a cooperative project - involving two campuses - to make a reduction. Both MU and MS&T have nuclear research ...”
• “It's gratifying to learn that here in Columbia there's a neighborhood of poor but highly virtuous citizens, unlike ...”
• “Actually, 75 seems a bit low. Assuming that this is how things are going to be, why wasn't this ...”
• “"We need more, and more effective enforcement of existing laws." Yes we do, and that's what's wrong with ...”
• “What is the presumed religious affiliation of these suspected terrorists? Are they Jews? Are they Catholics? Are they Lutherans? Are ...”
• “Nowhere in my initial post on the subject does the designation "MU" appear. We are the University of Missouri System ...”
• “It's not necessary to employ calculus or differential equations to deduce that Missouri is in the top third of ...”
• “@ John Schultz Yes, John, I too have noticed this excessive capitalization. My understanding (remember, I came to the Internet rather ...”
• “@ Ray Nice, but I'd rather have the Maserati. I'm not much on animals. I like to see horses ...”
• “All of you guys, regardless of which side of the issue you happen to be on, have really managed to ...”
• “@ Marv Riemer Then you'd really hate the Big Ten conference, about half of whose games start at 11:00 ...”
• “Marketing 101: If you intend to sell something it is always preferable to have a product that someone wants to ...”
• “While elk may have roamed parts of Missouri in the past, this is NOT the past! Re-introduction of a species ...”
• “"Is Latin America's left wing declining?" The tide flows in, the tide flows out, the tide flows back in ...”
• “Should you be in the vicinity of Rolla, the "village" is easy to find. Coming south from Columbia on US ...”
• “My understanding is that it's the whole nine yards. Sorry, but I don't have a personal connection to ...”
• “A solar home "village" is nearing completion at Missouri S&T. The homes were originally built to exhibit in national ...”
• “Answer to question: "There's a sucker born every minute." - P. T. Barnum”
• “Yes, Ray, I've considered it frequently. An excellent example of "lopsidedness" is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which in spite ...”
• “Parents interested in good public undergraduate education, without encountering a lot of meaningless hype, have the option of sending little ...”
• “That's something positive. Do you think that North Korea and China will ever do the same for United Nations ...”
• “Very useful, especially for winter weather conditions. Indiana went to this format last winter.”
• “We need to realize there's both a messenger AND a message. The message would still be there without Palin ...”
• “For any persons (faculty, students, alumni) connected with University of Missouri System the loss of a congressional district means we ...”
• “Is the energy used by each department actually metered (by using individual meters)?”
• “So, according to the New York Post Iman Feisal Rauf is a slum landlord in addition to being a very ...”
• “@ James Krewson Your final sentence represents an excellent commentary on this situation. There's an amazing amount of ignorance and ...”
• “We might achieve a more tolerant nation if EVERYONE believed that intolerance is a two-way street and not a one-way ...”
• “@ John Schultz Be glad you don't have the shillelaghs, they're heavy and very awkward to carry. The future ...”
• “@ Scotty Dont Neither Schultz nor I are faculty members, at any campus. Schultz is an MU graduate; I am not ...”
• “Well that's refreshing! Someone from the federal establishment admits the patently obvious: money alone won't solve all our ...”
• “Wasn't there at least one article in this newspaper saying University of Missouri System professors were at or near ...”
• “How will the elk be restrained to a three county area, even initially (let alone after they start to multiply ...”
• “Why, in a state having a population of more than 5 million, couldn't we come up with two better ...”
• “There is, although there shouldn't be, some confusion as to what a passport represents. A passport represents our government ...”
• “If you create national interest and earn national respect, you will end up on national television. Yesterday NBC-TV (by contract ...”
• “Should read "painful'" not "painless."”
• “Why should readers assume the role of editors and/or grammarians? Do you also want us to write the articles ...”
• “Death by firing squad is almost certainly less painless - provided the folks with the rifles are accurate.”
• “Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as a blasting agent in surface mining operations where "pushing" (slightly displacing) the bedded material ...”
• “"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" - Old playground saying.”
• “Article, above, says, "On the plus side, UM's change in demographics from 2005 to 2009 reflect a growing likelihood ...”
• “Little Miss Muffet is going to debate the Frog Prince - twice. How droll.”
• “The ultimate Machiavellian scenario - and I'm sure at least some Americans have figured this out - would be if Republicans ...”
• “Great! Reminds me of my misspent youth as a student at another campus of this university. Occasionally on a Saturday ...”
• “You needn't be a CPA to realize that Nebraska is going to do very well financially by joining the ...”
• “I agree with John Schultz: there needs to be more specificity. Attempting to lead Americans these days is a bit ...”
• “Happy to see this short article. We may at times be short-sighted in our views as to what truly constitutes ...”
• “Thanks, Tim. I'm aware of the work to start a structural clay products operation in Mexico, Missouri. While I ...”
• “How Ricky Clemons got into MU is at least as interesting as anything he did while there. Since you mentioned ...”
• “When did I question the quality of modern paving bricks? There's nothing wrong with modern day pavers! I do ...”
• “It seems that several of us think this is a poor idea. Here are some considerations to keep in mind ...”
• “Bill, they've had since the 7th Century A.D. to show their women some measure of equality. Do you ...”
• “Marvelous! But from an aesthetic standpoint why not go all the way? Let's restrict traffic on those streets to ...”
• “Years ago, loan defaults were a problem in Pennsylvania. Their state agency decided to take out full page ads in ...”
• “If this is such a good idea, and I'm not suggesting that it isn't a good idea, WHY ...”
• “Sould read "191 years ago."”
• “In the United States the principle of "corporation as a person" was established in 1819 by the United States Supreme ...”
• “Knobby knees? Several women have told me that viewing a man wearing a kilt is an incredibly erotic experience for ...”
• “You're welcome. Compared to Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri, Iowa's organization for higher education is a model of simplicity ...”
• “And the redeeming social and/or artistic reasons for this "exhibition" are...? Maybe this is one "Chinese import" we could ...”
• “Spastic.”
• “John Wayne was born in Iowa; the family moved to California when John was rather young. If you drive north ...”
• “Who is qualified to conduct this study? Must it only be attempted by PhDs? (Soothsayers, perhaps.) Is there a concrete ...”
• “This is awful! Missouri University of Science & Technology got rid of its academic deans peacefully. Not a single academic dean ...”
• “Cartoonist Darkow of the Tribune has addressed this situation humorously. It seems MU is designated an alcohol-free campus - except where ...”
• “"Slay them wherever you find them, and drive them out of the places they drove you from. Idolatry is worse ...”
• “Four thousand (4,000) degree programs. Amazing! Wouldn't it be interesting to see an alphabetized list. Scanning that list ...”
• “Probably the effects that habaneros and other peppers with very high numbers on the Scoville scale have on individuals vary ...”
• “I feed wild birds, but only in the winter. When I first fill the feeder in late autumn I notice ...”
• “Interesting football score from Saturday: Kansas 28, #15 Georgia Tech 25. Poor old Georgia Tech! First Iowa upset them in ...”
• “@ Carlos Didn't I recently remind you that it's football season?”
• “As a matter of curiosity can you supply us with a NUMBER, the number of persons engaged in doing all ...”
• “@ Gary Blankenship They can't forswear jihad, because it's part of the Qaran (Koran, Kur'an). Removing it would ...”
• “First, Carlos, we need to establish some uniform measurement of time. Would you prefer nanoseconds or picoseconds? As for Schultz ...”
• “@ John Schultz Thanks, John, you've already made my weekend and it's only Friday afternoon. Richard Nixon bobblehead. I ...”
• “George, sadly I think that at some point in the future we (but not me, because I won't be ...”
• “As long as the Qurans are in Jones' possession they could be burned, so the situation continues. "Death to Christians ...”
• “Ive heard rumors that you were a catalog burner, Ray. I can recommend a good therapist (she cured me).”
• “Is AMERICA (all capital letters) a different political entity from America, where most Americans live? Just curious. I have no ...”
• “Well stated, Jennifer.”
• “Some history. University of Missouri, which was then just two campuses, did not admit black students until 1949. This university ...”
• “Well thank goodness THAT'S completed! No doubt the fate of MU, University of Missouri System and indeed the entire ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking Grapefruit on the wind screen (they were a Brit colony) has been experienced by motorists. Enough squashed grapefruit ...”
• “In photos used in its recruiting literature another University of Missouri System campus creates an impression of "campus diversity" which ...”
• “Do you suppose the grapefruit grown in Belize are "Duncan" variety? Belize exports fruit juices, not fruit, to the UK ...”
• “This letter showcases the difference between scientific methodology and political sophistry. For scientists and engineers it is just as important ...”
• “Carlos, football season started Saturday.”
• “@ Ray Shapiro Try brussels sprouts, Ray, you'll love them. Smother them in melted cheese and they'll go down ...”
• “Goldblatt's Theory of Fluid Dynamics: "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity but ...”
• “Does xenophobia exist in venues other than Russia, Western Europe and the United States? (Is the pope Catholic? Does a ...”
• “There's one law that neither Congress nor the legislatures of the 50 states will ever succeed in repealing: the ...”
• “DMACC (Des Moines Area Community College). Pronounced "dee.mack." It's well established, and serves most of central Iowa through ...”
• “"Earth First! We'll Mine The Other Planets Later." [Bumper sticker, seen on vehicles at one University of Missouri System ...”
• “One area junior college in a neighboring state has more students than any single one of the state's three ...”
• “Fully agree with your last paragraph, Mark. Best example might be picking coffee "fruits." If you aren't careful, you ...”
• “Thank you, Laura.”
• “This university system has become nationally notorious for how poorly it pays its faculty (at all its campuses). The system ...”
• “This makes more sense than basing the divisions strictly on geography. Loss of the annual Iowa-Wisconsin game is a bummer.”
• “Oil seeps from ocean floors occur naturally. The seeps emit only a fraction of the oil emitted by the oil ...”
• “The increase is positive, but 66% isn't nearly good enough! Why Americans (not just teenagers) aren't using seat ...”
• “Aw c'mon, Rick, compared to certain other local columnists Karl is a veritable genius. [signed]Joe (Where are we ...”
• “I'm curious. What do the numbers look like IF you remove the scores from schools located in Kansas City ...”
• “Want to see a dirt pile? Kroenke has one over here on the west side that looks like Mount Everest ...”
• “Better post a last name, Lia, or you won't be around here much longer.”
• “Yes, but this isn't Tombstone, AZ and Wendy's isn't the O. K. Corral. I'm very comfortable ...”
• “Weigh in?”
• “Using weight as the criteria seems obvious: it's easy to MEASURE. Measuring "improved wellness" is not so easy and ...”
• “Not certain I was trying to "calm" anyone; just stating the obvious (that the center will either be built at ...”
• “Is this an infringement of the First Amendment? Courts in this country have given the broadest interpretation to what the ...”
• “This subject seems to have taken on a life of its own. The mosque/community center will either be built ...”
• “It appears the Missourian acted in a professional manner. The situation and various comments already posted in the local newspapers ...”
• “Cool! I remember visiting The Shack, although I never took a course at MU. Our equivalent was a stupendous drinking ...”
• “Vincent, maybe the editors will consider re-formatting your remarks as a column, to counter some garbage that appeared in the ...”
• “The question implies that there will be a CHOICE. That may currently be true for MU, but another campus has ...”
• “I am aware of this situation from having a granddaughter who is a sophomore at a private, church-affiliated college. However ...”
• “First Amendment or not, being offended by someone's speech is optional. You can choose not to be offended. Doing ...”
• “I seem to recall that our civics teachers spent more than a little class time explaining the difference between "freedom ...”
• “Actually, Louis, we (the United Nations) are still technically at war with the People's Republic of Korea. A cease ...”
• “Today "neighborhood" has, as Ray has suggested, a negative connotation. It is viewed as something one might like to escape ...”
• “No problem, as long as everyone understands that when you combust (burn) this fuel an end product is carbon dioxide ...”
• “@ Gregg Bush Other than containing certain Muslim shrines maybe Saudi Arabia is a poor choice for an analogy. How about ...”
• “We can rest assured that if tomorrow someone planned to build a synagogue in Mecca or Medina there would be ...”
• “It could equally be argued that building the mosque IS a recruiting tool for al-Qaida. In any case, how much ...”
• “Interesting, but is there some technical reason why this couldn't be System wide? We're laboring under the impression ...”
• “The recent unfortunate multiple vehicle accident on I-44 that involved two school buses and resulted in two deaths was also ...”
• “Carlos, in Missouri it can also be hotter than the hinges of hell in early September. I believe things got ...”
• “Shapiro posted this: "...I will fight to repeal all unnecessary laws and services not required under the U. S. Constitution ...”
• “@ Tim Woemmel Want to get married? Drive to Iowa. The best route is I-70, I-435, I-35. Takes five hours, longer ...”
• “Whether or not this challenge succeeds, the most important thing may be that the challenge was made. (We have to ...”
• “La suerte de los tontos. Need a translation? Don't worry, Missourian, it's not at all vulgar or obscene ...”
• “We've finally found a way to get Californians to visit Iowa. Usually, it's the other way around. "The ...”
• “Forgive me, but there's no delicate way to say this: If someone were to urinate on a deceased's ...”
• “"Mr. Obama has recently veered sharply left." Mr. Obama has always been sharply left.”
• “Thanks, Ray, for bringing this to our attention. If a Jew, Catholic or Protestant had made similar statements concerning Muslims ...”
• “John - John! - you aren't thinking clearly. Getting off one's backside and signing up for term life insurance (and ...”
• “"The more bodies you put on the payroll, the more expensive it becomes." That's worth noting, and it just ...”
• “Agreed. Of course allowing that would be to admit that Americans aren't stupid and profligate, are able to intelligently ...”
• “John, Are we then to classify Pennsylvania as being a Third World country? On morning flights from Pittsburgh to DuBois ...”
• “I still recall the afternoon I nearly touched Haitian soil. I was a passenger on a flight from Trinidad to ...”
• “@ John Schultz. Trying to understand our national security goals is difficult to say the least, but those decisions are ultimately ...”
• “For a recent breakthrough in detection methods, see: http://news.mst.edu/2010/08/skin_cancer_detection_made_qui.html”
• “During the recent demonstrations in New York City over the proposed construction of a center and mosque, those opposed displayed ...”
• “Easier said than done, Carlos. Given how the United States defines who is a citizen, which is different from how ...”
• “Gritty journalism! If someone needs a replacement computer keyboard I have two that have never been used.”
• “When are you going to interview the raccoon? Surely with all the language skill at the university there must be ...”
• “"The risk is whether other people will have the same taste in clothing as you do..." If the school is ...”
• “From what has been published it appears that the pickup truck and both school buses were following the vehicle in ...”
• “"...The Justice Department said the requirement to buy coverage is an exercise of Congress' constitutional power to tax and spend ...”
• “There's a line - perhaps thin - between improving fuel consumption and being just plain silly or even dangerous. Removing outside ...”
• “Corporate dividends are subject to double taxation. They are taxable as income to those who receive them from a corporation ...”
• “And now a "practicality." In the future if you believe you are in serious peril from a person or persons ...”
• “Applying the laws of thermodynamics to Constitutional law? Brave new world! I have an even more daring proposition, regarding the ...”
• “Pre-season picks for the Big Ten show Ohio State, Wisconsin and Iowa, in that order. Ohio State is picked to ...”
• “Well the street COULD be re-named "Paige Avenue." Probably not.”
• “@ Carlos Sanchez I agree with your suggestion of having trooops sent to the border. We need to remember that some ...”
• “@Carlos It could get worse, no matter how things go in Washout, D. C. There is a real possibility the ...”
• “Immigration matters are part and parcel of the federal government's responsibility. What this controversial state law has succeeded in ...”
• “Careful, Mr. (not Ms.) Foecking or someone might think you are committing satire, or, worse yet, sarcasm.”
• “I suppose we could "tag" all our satirical remarks, for ease of identification. My late wife's name was Ms ...”
• “Thanks for pointing that out, John. Don't know much about udders anyhow. As a big city boy I grew ...”
• “Shouldn't the caption for this story read "Children ..."? "Children" is already a plural noun, so why add an "s ...”
• “The map is interesting, but is there some error for Russell Elementary boundaries? They are shown as discontinuous, with Fairview ...”
• “Well, let's see. They practiced redistribution of wealth in the former Soviet Union, didn't they? Nobody toward the ...”
• “The underlying premise for Social Security seems to be that the vast majority of American citizens are too stupid and ...”
• “"Is this the people's country, or does it belong to those ignorant jerks in DC that are trying every ...”
• “@Chris Spurlock and Hanna Wiese Enrollment for autumn semester 2010 has already been officially capped at one of the four ...”
• “Isn't instant replay a bit like an electronic version of a "do over"? "Do overs" may be justified in ...”
• “Memory sometimes fails, but years ago wasn't League of Women Voters famous for and highly respected for taking an ...”
• “I agree with Phil Wilkinson. I'm going to repeat a remark I made that was appended to the first ...”
• “Water IS the most critical resource. BTW, in the general classification of things - animal, vegetable, mineral - water is a mineral ...”
• “Why was it named "Maryland Avenue" in the first place, and why wait so late to change the name? Sounds ...”
• “According to CNN, John Maynard Keynes does currently reside in Hell. The good news for Keynes is that he has ...”
• “Wherever John Maynard Keynes may be in the afterlife, he is probably smiling favorably. Rumor has it he's either ...”
• “If appearances and mannerisms were actually paramount in politics, Calvin Coolidge would not have gotten elected President. Granted, Coolidge initially ...”
• “@ Ray Shapiro Your comment has caused me to think further (about 20 nanoseconds worth) about parking garages. Parking garages are ...”
• “Popular use of the term "uglification" is credited to author Lewis Carroll, where it appears in Chapter IX of "Alice ...”
• “It is too soon to say that "it's over" in terms of leakage from or around the initially-drilled well ...”
• “Huckstering clean energy is one thing, actually having it is something else. Any "clean energy policy" for University of Missouri ...”
• “Supplies of ALL fossil fuels are finite. But don't we sometimes find new deposits (that is, deposits we previously ...”
• “Neighboring (to Germany) France derives something like 70% of its electrical power from nuclear facilities. When is the last time ...”
• “There seems to be more than a little evidence that the framers of our Constitution as well as the general ...”
• “@ Steven Todd Regarding your suggestion that administrative staff be reduced at our state universities, isn't it amazing that one ...”
• “Flood and freeze the playing surface, put ice skates on the players' feet, and you might actually have a real ...”
• “The actual demand for electricity in the United States in 2007 was 783 GW summer and 640 GW winter. You ...”
• “There will be an additional charge for supplying a pressurized mixture of the two gases (true for all mixtures), but ...”
• “This subject can be discussed on strictly economic grounds: if there were no customers, there would be no "product." [BTW ...”
• “Good alternative, John. Actually, I had in mind the two probable candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties: Paris Hilton ...”
• “What a wonderful choice it appears we will have in November!”
• “Shouldn't that headline read "pleads guilty"? Just a guess.”
• “Given the things he favors, why is he running on the Democratic ticket? Is it because while he dislikes both ...”
• “When electricity is generated it has to be transmitted to the point(s) where it is used. Most of us ...”
• “Maybe it's time to inject some humor into to this discussion. You may have seen recent Foster Grant glasses ...”
• “Matters concerning legal and illegal immigration are matters of NATIONAL policy, not just in the United States but in all ...”
• “I agree with Mark Foecking's post of July 1st. I'll add that fuel-air combustion isn't particularly efficient ...”
• “Nuclear energy represents a logical means of meeting electrical demand for the next several decades while at the same time ...”
• “A question. If we are going to bring up our children completely smothered by our protection (as opposed to giving ...”
• “Hydrogen gas represents a potential danger (explosive, flammable), but so do several other commercially-used agents. At another UM System campus ...”
• “@ Rebecca Berg Well done article. The point that from an equity standpoint Americans own essentially the same percentage of BP ...”
• “McClure said, "It is still easier and more reliable to just drive to St. Louis and catch a plane..." Or ...”
• “Of course it's about money! Some of us have been saying that for years. NCAA DIVISION I football and ...”
• “Why don't we invite the terrorists for tea and scones? As devout Muslims they wouldn't dream of ingesting ...”
• “In some cities where there's a pedestrian mall of several blocks, only pedestrians and CITY BUSES are allowed*, That ...”
• “Good, Karl, I see you took my remarks as they were intended: as a jest. BTW, Metallurgy is correctly spelled ...”
• “An odd choice of campus. For the same cost but greater study Col. Miller could have chosen the other campus ...”
• “I remember that very early Sunday morning (here in the Central Time Zone). I had what was a well-paid part ...”
• “With Deaton's appointment, and considering the ridiculous circus we've witnessed the past few weeks, we've now been ...”
• “A frequent poster of comments in the Columbia Daily Tribune has suggested that the "revised" Big 12 conference be named ...”
• “The problem with the Knight Commission's recommendations is that they are exactly that: recommendations. As long as large - no ...”
• “There's at least ONE other unanswered question. Why did anyone believe MU would be invited to join the Big ...”
• “Here is something called Parkinson's law, not to be confused with Parkinson's disease. (Two different persons named "Parkinson ...”
• “Political correctness is a refuge for exceedingly small and pathetic people.”
• “It was probably something I ate or drank, but Sunday night I had the most awful nightmare. Truman the Tiger ...”
• “This will not register with most readers, because they are too young, but reading the comments of Forsee, some curators ...”
• “With acceptance of Nebraska the Big Ten conference will have a total of 12 teams, an EVEN NUMBER. One thing ...”
• “Nice to note there are still those who remember the Korean War. Most folks seem incapable of doing that.”
• “Reminds me of a very old joke: Q: What is another designation for couples who practice the rhythm method of ...”
• “@ Tom Warhover It might be of general interest. The effects of natural weathering and/or pollution are worldwide concerns of ...”
• “Have the columns ever been treated with an agent to retard effects of weathering/air pollution? Limestone is not the ...”
• “No argument here or with the first three opinions in what appears to be somewhat of a series. But if ...”
• “It's all about the money - and ONLY ABOUT THE MONEY. Loyalty? What loyalty? You've got to be kidding.”
• “What is the "Marine Corp," and is someone trying to be cute or just managing to publicly display their ignorance ...”
• “Woody Cozad. Now there's a blast from the past! Some years ago Woody stated, for publication, that in his ...”
• “English Translation: Of course we're still committed to the Big 12 - until such time as we receive a better ...”
• “Ah yes, the fetid stench of Political Correctness. By comparison it makes those "factory" hog farms smell as attractive as ...”
• “So we have the prospect of university students wanting off-campus housing needing to compete with IBM employees for rental accommodations ...”
• “One problem with communication these days is that the attention span of some potential readers/viewers can be best measured ...”
• “As is usually the case, Mark, I agree with your comments on this matter. The present disaster has caused me ...”
• “Well, Mr. Kennedy, what we may have here is validation of a very old saying. What saying would that be ...”
• “Ray Shapiro & Mark Foecking: Since the deal is apparently now sealed, we will soon find out. A few months of ...”
• “Ray Shapiro says "... for jobs which I thought were going to existing residents and future MU grads." REALLY? Where does ...”
• “One also assumes that IBM "knew what they were doing" when they closed their operations in Columbia some years ago ...”
• “What is an academic dean? I got blind-sided in the other Columbia newspaper because I said there were now no ...”
• “"The increases have even prompted the Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, to consider limiting freshman enrollment." No ...”
• “hoka hey's post has apparently been removed*. I am not sure how my post, above, fits in with controlled ...”
• “hoka hey's post reminds me of a situation several years ago, involving a televised Texas-Missouri football game and UMKC ...”
• “Sometimes it's good to evaluate a situation by comparing it to possible alternatives. Suppose we were obtaining 600-800 jobs ...”
• “I am not a Libertarian but I know John and we share many of the same views. (My political affiliation ...”
• “Don't know what is meant by "geoengineering" but Geological Engineering is a degree program at UM System - although not ...”
• “You say that the sky IS falling, or at least some portion of it? Damn and double damn! I accidentally ...”
• “A further comment on Dubuque, Iowa: it is also a college town (private schools) and a tourist destination of sorts ...”
• “Where, in your above "history," does Iowa State University (formerly Iowa State College) fit in? Obviously it must fit in ...”
• “Let's examine a hypothetical situation. You have a life-threatening medical condition that requires surgery, and there are few surgeons ...”
• “Obviously one should not attempt to stop an oil leak unless one has been certified to be politically correct. Scientific ...”
• “One of the four UM System campuses has for years run a very successful array of non-degree programs aimed at ...”
• “The folks at the Kansas City, Rolla and St. Louis campuses of University of Missouri System, their alumni included, would ...”
• “This article was sent to another UM System campus for faculty comment. Their comment: It's really not so bad ...”
• “"We definitely know a lot about what we don't know."”
• “Person #1: "They didn't accomplish much at this year's Missouri legislative session." Person #2: "Yes, isn't it ...”
• “I agree with Shane Pierce, if what is in the article is truly all there is, there's no sense ...”
• “It's comforting to discover that Big Brother is not only still alive but is apparently engaged in expansion.”
• “It seems the Tour has been well received and has serious public support. So, could it be permanently put on ...”
• “@Kyle Bosch If you check the comments you will find a note from the Missourian (Laura Johnston) saying that they ...”
• “The "stadium map" that accompanies the article shows one too many stadiums for the Big Ten (12, when there should ...”
• “Are we also going to require that coach Pingeton take vows of poverty and chastity? Oops, sorry, those might be ...”
• “The Big Ten distribution allocation is a great situation for schools like Iowa (the state-supported university with the smallest number ...”
• “Perhaps when Judge Crabb was three or four years old somebody stole her teddy bear. That will do it every ...”
• “@ John Schultz 3 AM historically is the time of night a Soviet citizen could expect the KGB to come knocking ...”
• “Swept in baseball by KU. Obviously there's no joy in Mudville* this Monday morning! Six conference games remaining: the ...”
• “@ K.S. Huffman You say that you were thinking about living in the Missouri Ozarks. Be advised that Missouri south ...”
• “The photo appears to be taken from the riots in Greece. The Economist magazine, a weekly British publication widely read ...”
• “Reading assignment: Consider the thoughts and advice of Thomas Sowell, Bill Cosby and Walter E. Williams. Use a search engine ...”
• “The title of this article should read "Arizona immigration law should SHAME Congress into acting." Well, maybe not; is today ...”
• “I agree with Jared that this is truly a shame. My grandchildren, musicians all, have enjoyed summer band camps in ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking Cheer up, Mark, the 2010 legislative session is almost over. Person #1: "It doesn't appear that the ...”
• “... the community as a hole." I don't think that's an accurate description of our community. Do you?”
• “As someone who made his living in part by traveling, domestically and internationally, the difference between $4 and $40 for ...”
• “There have been attempts to gasify coal in situ (that is, without first mining the coal). This hasn't proven ...”
• “Coal gasification is hardly a new concept. There was a patent dating back to the late 18th Century. Probably the ...”
• “U. S. Department of Energy is also funding a project at MS&T to improve performance of coal gasifiers, used ...”
• “Mike Martin, you and other readers missed the "tina_fey" tirade, which had a short life before being removed. If you ...”
• “No, tina_fey, I would not agree that MU's J-School is a joke, any more than I would agree that ...”
• “Do we think the Columns would crumble if we were to apply facts and logic to this situation? It's ...”
• “@DonMilsap Good post. It's called an "advocacy system," so why wouldn't an attorney put the client's needs ...”
• “... for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so ... - Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Those who expect very ...”
• “I can't resist: I feel compelled to say it again. The real issue here is not the Arizona law ...”
• “POTUS can go where POTUS wants to go (in the United States), even against the advice of POTUS's advisers ...”
• “Interesting. UM System's first nuclear research reactor, still in operation, has never used weapons grade uranium as fuel. It ...”
• “The land presently occupied by the states of New Mexico and Arizona saw it's first "European" settlers in 1598 ...”
• “The real issue here is the failure of the federal government to confront this situation, and it is more than ...”
• “Well, Karl, you picked a zinger this time! Anyone weighing in on this subject should reveal their prior experience with ...”
• “1- The state of Arizona has acted because the federal government (Congress, Presidents-plural) has failed to act. The federal government ...”
• “Jimmy, I'm reminded of the sales force of a corporation I once worked for. The salesmen were always carrying ...”
• “Well, Mark, if your calculations are correct, and I'm sure they are, 26,000 gallons of water is almost ...”
• “Looks like someone is spamming this site, under a range of names, or else this "loan" business is some sort ...”
• “In theory it should be possible to use both recycled shingles AND recycled glass in an asphalt paving product. This ...”
• “Well, Carlie, there's no problem. I wanted to bring the matter back to the columnist: Karl Miller. If Miller ...”
• “1-Sooner or later this was bound to happen; it was just a matter of where (state university or state college ...”
• “According to document R-2005A TS-2c, this practice has been used in the United States for about 15 years (as of ...”
• “This discussion does seem to have gotten beyond the scope of Karl Miller's column, but there's no harm ...”
• “I am probably the last person in Columbia to defend David Rosman, but this and his other columns are presented ...”
• “The most logical addition would be Notre Dame. It lies within the present - and traditional - geographic area of the Big ...”
• “Whether the two students are readmitted is up to MU's administration (and might also involve a decision by System ...”
• “@ Mark Foecking Seems to me we have no disagreement. In a society whose collective patience can sometimes be measured in ...”
• “A parallel situation exists with "fuel" for production of electrical energy. Wind and solar power generation should be developed and ...”
• “@phillipp_young You might like Kurt Warner better if you knew how much time and money (their own) Kurt and his ...”
• “Fascinating! Summer camps at another UM System campus have been charging fees from the establishment of their programs. In financial ...”
• “Dan Dothage said, "Who cares what the color of someone's skin is or their gender?" Actually, psychologists will tell ...”
• “@matthew mina The situation you describe illustrates an important point: what the state gives, the state can also take away ...”
• “You're probably right, Phillip, but the Rams didn't "suck" when Kurt Warner was their quarterback. Let's have ...”
• “Marquette, Michigan, with a population about one-fifth that of Columbia, has scheduled air service by two major carriers, one from ...”
• “In 2009 the domestic mining industry set a record low of 34 deaths. Should that be considered good enough? No ...”
• “I assume the "I-63" error was intentional, Ray: there is no Interstate highway designated "I-63." Maybe there should be such ...”
• “"I truly don't feel the legislators know exactly what a teacher does on a daily basis." I truly don ...”
• “It's even greater that there are students studying science and engineering at campuses across the United States, obtaining the ...”
• “To John Schultz and Ray Shapiro: Of course, guys, it's infinitely easier to tackle a perceived problem when the ...”
• “"Why put more people on the streets looking for jobs?" It's possible to have a degree and still have ...”
• “Yes, Carl Kabler, it sounds reasonable. Here's another point to ponder. Let's arbitrarily forget about "downtown image" and ...”
• “Gregg, you are not alone: I failed the test too. So, I strongly suspect, did John Schultz and Mark Foecking ...”
• “Be VERY careful what you wish for! Isn't voting compulsory in North Korea?”
• “"It takes a village to raise a child." -Hillary Clinton”
• “There is at least one advantage to funding your own program: if your funding isn't coming from the state ...”
• “@ Liz Mitchell I can understand your distress, but I'm wondering how you will survive the campaigning for the election ...”
• “Should cameras be installed in The District, what is the potential charge for "mooning" one of them? Is it only ...”
• “Is it the business of those who post here to "out" the actual names of others who post here? I ...”
• “@ Richard Hayden I agree with you, Richard; unfortunately, not everyone seems to agree with you. Maybe folks should read the ...”
• “@ Peggy Marion Regarding point 2) of your post, one is reminded of the phrase "an accident just waiting to happen ...”
• “Is it really necessary to employ all capital letters in a post? Looks like a #%@&$ telegram! If one can't ...”
• “The observation has been made, elsewhere, that there seems to be a disconnect in this matter on the part of ...”
• “Agreed, Mark. Here's another and perhaps more telling way to look at it. In the "bad old days" we ...”
• “A trip down memory lane. Prior to 1950 large numbers of natural gas pipelines did not exist; many Midwest cities ...”
• “Aurthur Schneider said "... it seems to me that the proportion of square footage used for classrooms and teaching labs at ...”
• “To the best of my recollection Missouri had only a rear license plate when I was a college student driving ...”
• “Having read all the posts on this subject so far our Buffalo friends should understand that University of Missouri System ...”
• “Let's not concern ourselves with where the money is invested. So what if it turns out to be with ...”
• “Thanks for the information (the reference), Wesley Virginia. "Everybody has the right to be stupid." Hard to argue with that ...”
• “@ Andrew Blank Articles concerning the football bowl game and Naval Academy football fans are available in the archives of both ...”
• “It's obvious the posts by those at Buffalo were not fabrications by someone from Lawrence, Kansas. If they had ...”
• “Ms. Marion: It has often been said that a thin line exists between being privileged and being spoiled rotten. Assuming ...”
• “Yes, there are undoubtedly "some brilliant people at Mizzou." Certainly none more brilliant than those geniuses who planted those cotton ...”
• “Regrettably, I am unfamiliar with the customs practiced by university and college students in Buffalo, New York. Do they have ...”
• “Compact campuses definitely have advantages. University of Missouri System has two truly compact campuses; neither of them is located in ...”
• “The story was published before the Missourian's difficulties, which I apparently managed to miss (by being elsewhere).”
• “Right on, Mark! Since the present engergy crunch has been upon us there have been really weird statements made by ...”
• “Well, let's not stop with our speculating. It could also have been someone from the Kansas City, Rolla or ...”
• “Who knows? Perhaps in the act of investigating this incident the kampus kops will also solve the homicide that took ...”
• “According to published data, MU currently accounts for less than half of the students present in University of Missouri System ...”
• “Let's ask the caterpillar (Alice in Wonderland). Hopefully the Queen of Hearts won't require that the caterpillar's ...”
• “The targets for first-year retention are interesting. Note the difference between Missouri S&T and MU on one hand and ...”
• “The most frequent patron of this facility will no doubt be a giant caterpillar, and the hostess will be named ...”
• “Two thoughts: 1- Appeals based on personal situations and emotions may be absolutely fascinating but should play no part in ...”
• “There is another, technical, reason for requiring that motorists in the United States be able to read English. Our road ...”
• “We need more good ideas like this one.”
• “More than half a century ago those of us who came to Missouri from somewhat more civilized states or Canada ...”
• “Unfortunately, passing a law doesn't banish stupidity, but the proposal might be a step in the right direction. How ...”
• “Interesting article. My knowledge of the subject concerns one introductory mycology text, multi-authored and published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc ...”
• “@Charlie Corollo Your illustration of becoming a plumber reminds me that years ago a discussion was going on in "Chemical ...”
• “Is this to be regarded as some kind of contest? I do agree that those who want to participate should ...”
• “Thanks, Ray. The information you've provided confirms what I'd already been given to understand. If one only pays ...”
• “Does anyone have statistics for murder and suicide rates of Latino males in the same age group? In Missouri it ...”
• “Perhaps UMKC should consider having a live kangaroo present at their basketball games. (Like UMSL, UMKC does not play intercollegiate ...”
• “Both television sets and computers have "off" switches. If someone can't locate them, I'm sure assistance could be ...”
• “There's a serious problem with the concept of having separate curriculum for Black and Latino students, no matter how ...”
• “Two comments: Where will any necessary funding come from? Oh, we can do what we always do: increase tuition and ...”
• “From the description of the maps it appears the university system's so-called "flagship campus" resembles the famous ship "Titanic ...”
• “"We are just here to help you." Actually, the stated purpose of making the survey is not at all a ...”
• “Route WW and the lettered routes it connects to in Callaway County were once part of the shortest cross-state "auto ...”
• “I absolutely agree with Mark Foecking. Meanwhile, here is an interesting bit of news, found in American Ceramic Society Bulletin ...”
• “While I agree with the sentiments expressed in this article it - and other statements being made about this latest incident ...”
• “The longer this business drags on, the less interesting actual events after the game become and the more interesting interpretations ...”
• “Deletion of comments made, by the person who made them, hardly seems necessary. We may at times make ill-advised comments ...”
• “@ Ray Shapiro Actually, Ray, there was a time when parents did send their children to school with lunches made from ...”
• “This silliness has gone on way to long! Maybe it's the weather. Of course we must defend the respective ...”
• “Perhaps Colonel Miller's columns could be syndicated. I see a real audience for what Miller has to say in ...”
• “Believe it or not, the band business at the Texas Bowl and Iowa's surprise victory at the Orange Bowl ...”
• “@ Gregg Gibson. Re your remark, now we know how Iowa fared against the Georgia Tech offense: the Hawkeyes smothered it ...”
• “If New Zealand's higher education is any example, the majors most apt to become three-year bachelor's degrees will ...”
• “Maybe it's time to put the event in proper context. We're talking about the alleged misconduct of a ...”
• “Do they have "band gaffes" like that in the Big 10 athletic conference? Possibly. When is the last time a ...”
• “Perhaps the new regulations are only intended to apply to real airports.”
• “Good point, John Schultz, and correct: not all high schools offer the prerequisite courses. I too had a problem, and ...”
• “I could not agree more with the concept of having clear, specific standards where mathematics is concerned. Students - and middle ...”
• “Those of us of a "certain age" who grew up in dairy states can remember the silly laws and regulations ...”
• “From the standpoint of athletics, the most logical addition to the conference so as to have an even number of ...”
• “A three-year bachelor of arts degree is not a new concept. New Zealand's colleges and universities, both public and ...”
• “Res ipsa loquitur. [The thing speaks for itself.]”
• “"I would like to remind Forsee that his job is to represent the interests of the students, faculty and staff ...”
• “Whether public funding is used to support summer camps can be a choice. We (see above posts) have chosen not ...”
• “The crowd may have been less of a political nature than that a celebrity was involved. The size of the ...”
• “When someone assumes the position of president of a major public university it is not the equivalent of taking monastic ...”
• “The only fossil fuel for which we have considerable domestic reserves is coal. This suggests that coal as a fuel ...”
• “Speaking of federal gravy trains, when are they going to finish building Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"? Oh, that's ...”
• “Two observations: 1- It's been known for years that responses to any poll or survey can be significantly influenced ...”
• “Mark, your suggestion is logical, but in University of Missouri System there is no room for logic. There never has ...”
• “Psst! Don't tell anyone but there's this campus in the University of Missouri System that has no tanning ...”
• “No doubt the Communist Party speaker will have an appreciative audience, since there are those among us who would need ...”
• “Lenin is supposed to have posited that when the time came it would be easy to hang all the Capitalists ...”
• “The four words displayed at the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. say it all: "Freedom is not free."”
• “Columbia, Missouri could also be compared with Columbia, South Carolina, especially as each city is home to the respective state ...”
• “It is true that Boulder, Colorado and Columbia, Missouri are for all practical purposes of equal population, and that their ...”
• “Let's take this argument to its logical extreme: You would then not schedule an opponent for homecoming that had ...”
• “What is a "Community Manger"? I've heard of communities, I've heard of mangers (normally associated with animal husbandry ...”
• “Perhaps we need to differentiate between the "product" and the "delivery system." Sloppy journalism and sloppy writing in general also ...”
• “@Richard Hayden. I see your point, but situations such as this happen. At present there's a Big 10 football ...”
• “It's Washington, D. C., Ray, where everything is smoke and mirrors.”
• “"I try to make a point of not asking for things I am not deserving of and am very skeptical ...”
• “Chuck, I'd gladly give you my place on this board, but I don't have a place on the ...”
• “Just as there may be a thin line between genius and insanity, I believe that on the Internet there may ...”
• “Maybe we should treat some of these "discussions" as if they were football or basketball games at put time limits ...”
• “1-What is the manufacturer's stated life for these sprinklers? What maintenance if any is specified? Are the sprinklers supposed ...”
• “We have no idea how many homosexuals served honorably in World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. It ...”
• “Yes, I have seen my fair share of graphs, linear regression plots and process control charts. One bonanza from the ...”
• “I do not enjoy being slandered. I never attended MU nor do I ever plan to attend MU. Get your ...”
• “Mark Foecking: A graft chart is a chart displaying the severity of graft and corruption. This varies across the United ...”
• “Of the 50 states, Iowa probably has the highest tax break for gasoline containing 10% ethanol, to the point of ...”
• “Regarding the Heisman Trophy, I believe the original intent was to award the trophy to backs (any backfield position) and ...”
• “The Missourian in Gothic font? The Gospel according to...”
• “John, yur English iz first rait. Apparently they razed the bar for English requirements since Joe was in school. They ...”
• “Chuck, "coarse" is the opposite of "fine." I am concerned about some of your problems with English: If your English ...”
• “I agree with Mark and John. Since World War II we seem to have a propensity to go around "manufacturing ...”
• “"The art of taxation consists of so plucking the goose to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the ...”
• “It is difficult for us to remember how many benefits we enjoy when we are so busy whining and complaining ...”
• “When Les Bourgeois' A Frame (their outdoor wine garden) opened at Noon on Friday, September 25th they were carding all ...”
• “Sometimes the difference between what's being called journalism and what's really theater appears to be paper thin. However ...”
• “Public drunkenness at wineries - and Les Bourgeois is only one of about 80 wineries in Missouri - may be news to ...”
• “Things continue to be blown far out of proportion. If you do not like the crucifix, or any other religious ...”
• “While financial improvement may be good news, it ignores the fact that for several consecutive years the operation was solidly ...”
• “Chickens? How about a Guernsey cow? I grew up in a city which at the time had a population of ...”
• “We could have two concerns here. One is why an adequate description of the perp was available but was not ...”
• “Propane is sometimes used as a standby fuel for industrial furnaces and kilns that are normally fired using natural gas ...”
• “Well, Lauren, look at it as a geography lesson for ignorant Missourians. Now we've all heard of the Taconic ...”
• “If this decision was made strictly along financial lines I agree with the views expressed by Chancellor Deaton. This show ...”
• “A similar situation existed in print journalism. When Gannett launched "USA Today" they stated that the venture would lose money ...”
• “A note about coal and oil (petroleum). The United States has considerable in-ground reserves of coal. We are a coal ...”
• “Regarding the letter that is prompting these comments, gee, I sense an old saying here: "Be careful what you wish ...”
• “It's been speculated that some of the bizarre carrying on in the 1960s was the result of far too ...”
• “One forgotten aspect of the Apollo Space Program is that a graduate of University of Missouri System was a participating ...”
• “The premise of the article appears both sound and obvious, but it raises a fundamental question. How far should a ...”
• “No argument, Greg. Please note that the news article is by the Associated Press and NOT by the Missourian. We ...”
• “Here we have the classic confrontation between "logic" and "legality." Logic strongly suggests that the driver of any motor vehicle ...”
• “Well, Mark, you are often correct on these matters, but regarding backing into an angle parking space I am compelled ...”
• “On July 5th I passed a milestone: 20 years of living in Columbia, Missouri. I've only lived longer in ...”
• “I fully agree with Ayn Rand. Anyone preparing for a life's occupation needs to seriously examine the prospects, present ...”
• “These situations - and has everyone forgotten the S&L crisis and bailout some years ago? - serve to remind us that ...”
• “"MSA is not a summer camp." Okay, explain to me what's wrong with the long-running and very successful summer ...”
• “Missouri is a state; it is not the national government. As a state, Missouri cannot run budget deficits, nor is ...”
• “Two comments: One problem is the societal attitude toward older people in this country. They are treated as a burden ...”
• “Finally, some sanity is introduced to this ridiculous issue.”
• “Chuck, you have noted this before and I agree with you, but how do we get errant parents to "do ...”
• “For engineering graduates nationwide, simply increasing starting salaries for new graduates would have little immediate effect on supply. Longer term ...”
• “This question has been asked before: Have those who administer this program talked with another UM System campus that runs ...”
• “There's no need to "speculate" on the situation with engineers: it's simply a classic case of supply versus ...”
• “A NEWSpaper is supposed to report the facts. If a suspect has been identified as having a certain skin color ...”
• “There seems to be some confusion as to what the word "trails" signifies. The trails covered in the article appear ...”
• “Homes usually wind up having successive occupants. Will these features attract second or third buyers? On the other hand, if ...”
• “But let's examine the most "positive" aspect of the nanny state: the "children" are no longer required to THINK ...”
• “This article contains one short statement that says volumes: "There is a lot of evil in the United States."”
• “I'm glad, Ray Shapiro, you found the MS&T article meaningful. So do we. However, I'm not certain ...”
• “What bleak employment picture? http://news.mst.edu/2009/05/demand_remains_high_for_st_gra.html”
• “"I can't wait until 'Eric" enters the real world." He may very well enter the real world before YOU ...”
• “Do we consider that public schools are primarily vehicles for education or do we regard them as a tax paid ...”
• “An eight-hour course might enable one to properly use a gun, but will you truly be ready to handle an ...”
• “Mark, your stance on school choice, if vigorously pursued, would almost certainly close the doors of many existing public schools ...”
• “An intelligence test to qualify as a voter? Aren't the turnouts for some elections low as it is? Do ...”
• “Rick, Julie may have a point about our rudeness. Please clean up your act. I, for my part, will exit ...”
• “Hi, This is Ellis Smith and I am 6-2" tall and weigh 180 pounds. I am 76 years old and ...”
• “We don't need swine flu and we don't need this. The difference is that there may not be ...”
• “I find myself in general agreement with you, john evenview. If you cannot get this Mendoza character out of UM ...”
• “And we're paying state taxes for this? If you want "diversity," go to Ellis Library or the Columbia Public ...”
• “Iowa has blessed America with Herbert Hoover, Harry Hopkins and Henry A. Wallace. Is any further comment necessary?”
• “Perhaps the most interesting feature is the need for voter approval. Exactly how DO voters feel about this issue? Are ...”
• “For 139 years students at one campus of this so-called "university system" have been allowed to use explosives. The safety ...”
• “Speed is a factor, as it can be in many types of traffic situations. When designing and constructing a traffic ...”
• “Chuck, your 4:17 pm post is right in principle but unfortunately out of step with much of today's ...”
• “When you assign the lunatics to prepare a report on the asylum, this is what you can expect.”
• “I hate to pour cold water on such a spirited debate - actually, I don't hate it at all! - but ...”
• “It is a great system - period - not just financially. It has been studied by institutions of higher learning outside Missouri ...”
• “The most extensive summer camp system operated in Missouri by a university campus is the long-running one at Missouri University ...”
• “One assumes, Karl Miller, that you understood what you were getting into when you took the assignment of writing a ...”
• “I agree with your comments about representation, Chuck; however, they do not address the question of what the size of ...”
• “Both of the foregoing comments are correct. A program or programs should be available, although only large communities may be ...”
• “Soon we will be observing the 150 anniversaries of the various battles of the Civil War, or, if you prefer ...”
• “Does anyone affiliated with MU or the "Missourian" know the history of University of Missouri? For at least fifty (50 ...”
• “So, there are 1,921 students in the school? That's small compared to Missouri S&T; however, any U ...”
• “The problem with living as if there were no tomorrow is that there always IS a tomorrow. Would we want ...”
• “Thank you very much, Phillip. The information site on stations and antennas was revealing. It appears that with the exception ...”
• “Some folks would oppose nuclear energy even if nuclear power plants could be built at no cost to anyone. Some ...”
• “It appears the beneficiaries of this program, other than those making converter boxes, may be cable and satellite providers. Some ...”
• “The confusion is due to considering the health care profession as a whole versus looking at it in discrete segments ...”
• “That more jobs are needed seems obvious. That most of those jobs should be lasting ones also seems obvious. So ...”
• “There is presently a parking lot on the west side of Garth just north of the intersection between Broadway and ...”
• “Without taking part in a debate about parking lot lights, I find it interesting that it takes a severe financial ...”
• “I agree that future power generation, and how and where the generated power is routed, needs to be a serious ...”
• “At least in theory if not also in practice, doesn't a state legislature represent the state's taxpayers? Are ...”
• “Well, Timothy Lloyd, we're glad to hear that you don't want your faculty coverage concerning views about the ...”
• “The public may not have a clear understanding of the status of the $1 billion raised by MU or the ...”
• “And the University of Missouri's system-wide policy on this matter is...? There are three other campuses, having a total ...”
• “Ayn Rand's point is well taken, and some of those who are most dissatisfied with the Taj Mahal edifices ...”
• “This is a subject about which the educational establishment AND the public (in the case of public universities and colleges ...”
• “Note: Not mentioned in the article is the fact that the extension of Scott Boulevard north from Broadway to I-70 ...”
• “Even a cursory look at the proposed interchange site should rule out the possibility of a full cloverleaf as an ...”
• “To reach Mo-X, dial 256-1991.”
• “Printing a letter or other commentary with the writer's name withheld is definitely acceptable - if the owner of the ...”
• “Good point, Chuck. Meanwhile, access Monday's Tribune home page, click on "Commentary," scan down "Open Column" (below the editorial ...”
• “Well, folks, my letters have been published rather frequently on the editorial page in that "other" local daily newspaper (you ...”
• “Another University of Missouri campus is now into the final quarter of a drive to raise $200 Million. Since that ...”
• “I would also vote for Bill Cosby for President. But what leadership experience does Cosby have? Only somewhat less than ...”
• “Ayn, nothing is impossible when discussing University of Missouri System, and/or the system's so-called flagship campus (their term ...”
• “How is it that one of the four UM System campuses is able to operate successfully without the position of ...”
• “Amber (above) makes the statement that they take their football seriously in Texas. Indeed they do! At University of Missouri ...”
• “Might we assume that "dex conwell" is also not a Mizzou fan? Neither are more than a few students, faculty ...”
• “Maybe it takes a non Tiger fan to put this disaster in perspective. Yes, this was truly a bitter blow ...”
• “It will be interesting to see how well this initiative is received at the Kansas City, Rolla and St. Louis ...”
• “This is unfortunate, although of course we don't know the details. Truman State University is the highest ranked of ...”
• “Before getting bent out of shape, as it were, over the absence of a voting student on the Board of ...”
• “Sometimes it's difficult to believe the four campuses that make up University of Missouri System have even the slightest ...”
• “Maybe we should look at this "marching" business from the standpoint of the organization requesting the permit to march. It ...”
• “Speaking of Aaron O'Neal, what is the status of legal actions brought against certain persons as the result of ...”
• “This situation has gotten considerable discussion on a local cyber forum. The thinking a present is that there should be ...”
• “The first requirement of any university is to teach; research is very important, but is not the first requirement. Administration ...”
• “The University of Missouri System's policy regarding condoms and condom distribution says...? Well, if there isn't any policy ...”
• “Thanks for the update. There has been a lot of speculation, and definitely not just in Columbia and Boone county ...”
• “This is a four-campus university, with 56% of its students - more than half - located on the Kansas City, Rolla and ...”
• “Fascinating! Sarah can go back to Rolla, where she'll be surrounded by those who love and admire her, whereas ...”
• “What's more interesting about this article than the hydrogen station is that apparently one campus of this multi-campus university ...”
• “MU is no longer listed by Princeton Review, and hasn't been listed by them for several years. Seems MU ...”
• “The St. Louis "Blimps"?”
• “This is merely a case of life imitating art. In the motion picture "Blaze," starring Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich ...”
• “There seems to be a supposition that should Missouri lose a congressional district and the number of curators falls to ...”
• “If the curators do their job, no further additions are necessary; if the curators FAIL to do their job, no ...”
• “John's point about financing is pertinent. What is "good" or "bad" in beer and ale is largely a matter ...”
• “A buyout wouldn't work anyway. If Missourians can't correctly pronounce "Versailles," how will they be able to order ...”
• “The first hydrogen-powered car to appear as a demonstration vehicle in a North American solar car race was one built ...”
• “Mr. Brasler's points are good ones. Do any of you recall that some years ago we were told in ...”
• “In endless arguing over this subject we miss a core point: the best and most effective solution is to employ ...”
• “Cindy, please note my previous post, two posts above yours. Again, I believe we have systemic problems that are not ...”
• “"It occurs to me that the problems at the Missourian may be issues of organizational leadership... [William Srite, see above ...”
• “I don't pretend to know anything about journalism, but printing the "Missourian" once a week seems an obvious way ...”
• “What benefit or benefits would this proposal, should it go forward, hold for the Tribune?”
• “There would appear to be no surprises here. In an era of declining print journalism one would NOT expect to ...”
• “As I responded to one of your previous articles on this subject, isn't it time we stopped beating on ...”
• “Why would any sane, reasonable person put the emphasis on reducing faculty positions versus reducing administrative positions? How much teaching ...”
• “The Memphis routing once briefly existed, years ago. That it is being considered again is fascinating. Even more fascinating is ...”
• “Technology is what we make of it. If I give a beautiful, rare violin to a skilled violinist, he or ...”
• “Rolla campus today operates using plans specifically aimed at raising its national standing. That's a stated goal! We invite ...”
• “Perhaps it's true that "all things old are new again." The city should have some record of it, but ...”
• “The final paragraph, obviously not written by President Forsee, fails to note that Gary Forsee is an alumnus of this ...”
• “Under government regulations in the former Soviet Union citizens starved to death and were sent to prison camps. Government regulations ...”
• “"Draconian budget cuts" is an interesting expression. If an obese person weighed 350 pounds and he or she went on ...”
• “It's the responsibility of a lecturer or program director to see that a balance of views is presented. If ...”
• “How much longer do we propose to beat a dead horse?”
• “First, the Constitution itself does not address political parties or the number of political parties. It can hardly give us ...”
• “I agree with Colonel Miller. I was never a Marine, but recall no instance in the United States Army where ...”
• “Would the MU Athletic Department become part of public MU or part of private MU? Since soliciting and obtaining funding ...”
• “How many of these derisive comments concerning Forsee would exist if Forsee had exactly the same resume but had obtained ...”
• “William Shakespeare wrote a play about this. The play is titled "Much Ado About Nothing."”
• “Well, let's look at our new University of Missouri System. As President, Gary Forsee, 1972 graduate of UMR. As ...”
• “Some of us prefer the suggestion made by MU law school graduate and former University of Missouri System curator Woody ...”
• “So, we have a name change that's NOT EXACTLY a name change. How much whining did Deaton have to ...”
• “But consider the progress that's been made since 1865! Finally, near the end of the fourth decade of the ...”
• “Who cares?”
• “Given that this is a state university, one might question whether this department is either relevant or necessary. There are ...”
• “For some years now we've had in this state what some of us call "The Great Disconnect." Everyone knows ...”
• “"Cheer up," they said, "Things could be worse." So I took their advice and cheered up, and sure enough things ...”
• “Close the offending fraternity and sorority houses and re-open them, on a case by case basis, only when they meet ...”
• “1- Well, you knew when (the year) the anniversary would occur. What ever happened to the concept of "plan ahead ...”
• “This would seem to be a very inefficient way to effect staff reductions at our so-called flagship campus. Do you ...”
• “Years ago an article appeared in "Chemical Engineering" magazine about an engineer who was on the road quite a bit ...”
• “Aw! The poor babies.”
• “I enjoyed the cartoon, but a sign in the background says "MU Curators." What are "MU Curators"? There is a ...”
• “As your article notes, the 1936 heat wave was present in several states. We lived for days in our basement ...”
• “Good for DeLana Sattarin! Some professors seem to think they are immune to accepted standards of decency - and it isn ...”
• “This is an interesting article, and the information shown in the "box" (sidebar) was interesting. I have two comments: Is ...”