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Coffee is good anytime of the day.
Is it wrong that I hate that my girlfriend tries to decide if God wants her to do something or not before she does it?
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My new phone lets me be even more of a Facebook creeper. I love it!
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I swear some people at this school must be majoring in ponies! GO TO CLASS!
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Where the hell is Quartar?
editor's note: So many issues here. Too little time.
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The best part of wakin' up is chocolate milk in your cup!
Beware my purple fuzzy hat of doom. If you annoy me you will get hit with a pom
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It's probably a bad thing that I don't remember the last time I drank water.
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Girl: Let's have sex in the Watson stacks. Guy: I would, but this is a dry campus.
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Fort Hays State has as much chance of beating our basketball team than LeBron James getting a standing ovation when he returns to Cleveland.
Downing 5 Hour Energy.
I'll be up all night. Wish it came with motivation, there ain't any in sight. All I need is to get these five pages right, but it would be easier turning dark to light.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
I don't even think we're each others type. Oh well, I never said I wanted serious!
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
FYI boys ... no-shave November ended today. so get off your lazy butts and shave. Thanks.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
Ride 'em cowboy.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
I really wish we had thicker walls so I didn't have to listen to you have phone sex. It's disturbing.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
Why did I have to fall for a girl from K-State? And I don't even know what she thinks after seven months. How lame is that.
Whoa now!
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
POLITICS
For Washington and Miami talent can only get you so far
Some want to see the president fail. I'd rather see the Big Three in Miami fail.
Last month, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
Now, we understand why when the president says "white," McConnell says "black." When the president says "up," McConnell says "down," and when Obama says "Let's cut our nuclear warhead stockpile a bit," McConnell says "Let's wait."
The 2010 New Start Treaty is a no-brainer. The treaty would reduce Russia's and America's nuclear arsenals and also resume inspections of both countries' nuclear facilities. Currently we have more than 9,000 warheads, and Russia has more than 12,000. We have more than enough nukes to blow the world up many times, when a couple hundred would do the same trick.
He's simply disagreeable.
Granted, this treaty is more about diplomacy than making the world safer, a side effect surely we can all agree is a good thing. Obama desperately needs to get his diplomatic swagger back not just for his political future but also for the good of our country
At this point, he's lucky if his wife passes him the salt.
Republican obstruction of this treaty symbolizes what's wrong with McConnell's goal. Creating a safer world, even in name only, has historically been a bipartisan endeavor. Republicans are not offering any kind of alternative or reason for their obstruction.
This sort of unreasonableness does not belong in politics, where debate, negotiation and
Starting the Conversation
BY D.M. SCOTT
dscott@kansan.com
In sports, we watch two of life's biggest themes play out in real time: victory and defeat — without pesky consequences. We can live and die with the rise and fall of our favorite teams without actually living and dying with our teams. Our hearts, the most malleable organ in our body, withstands, to our dismay, an unimaginable amount of pain. In sports, we can enjoy these highs and lowsat a safe distance.
It's OK to naively hope for a winning season when the Royals are 0-0, to sturdily carry the pain of a home loss against the Raiders in '99 and blindly support our slumping franchises for no other reason but because they're our home teams.
It's also OK to boo. Sometimes, it's even therapeutic. And it's what LeBron James heard a lot of last night as he played his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
James, A.K.A. "King James," is arguably the best player in the NBA, despite not winning a championship. He made the decision to leave Cleveland, a city not far from his hometown of Akron, Ohio, and took his talents to South Beach. The decision was announced during "The Decision," an hour-long television special, which revealed that although James may be the king of the
court, he's a jester when it comes to public relations.
This move culminated in the creation of the Big Three, formerly known as the Miami Heat. The team signed two more all-star free agents, eager to play with King James: Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh — a hoops coup. Instead of earning a championship the old fashion way, the Big Three conspired to buy one instead. Instead of beating the best, King James decided he rather play with the best.
Before the season began, one sport prognosticator doubted the Big Three would lose two games in a row all season, and he predicted they would set a record for most wins in a season.
To the surprise and joy of every sport fan except those in South Beach, the Big Three are a royal underachievement. Instead of casually watching the NBA, I intently tune-in just to see whom the Big Three will lose to next.
In witnessing this debacle, we learn a great lesson. Talent can only take you so far. Success stems from working well and playing nicely with others — team chemistry. Something Congress doesn't have but needs to get quickly if it is to address the people's business, such as determining taxes, setting the and balancing the budget.
I want to see the King and his two subjects fail badly.
How badly does McConnell hope our president fails?
I think we would be better off booing the former and rooting for the latter.
CARTOON
Scott is a junior from Overland Park in journalism.
MARIAM SAIFAN
Chocolate milk—the miracle drink?
GUEST COLUMN
Chocolate milk, a beverage commonly consumed by children is now being used as a sports recovery drink for people of all ages. Karp, Johnston, Tecklenburg, Mickleborough, Fly and Stager established that it can help to rehydrate the body and rebuild muscles during and after workouts or athletic events. Maybe that is not surprising, because the contents of chocolate milk include carbohydrates, protein, vitamin A, vitamin D and calcium, all of which contribute to rebuilding muscle. Also present are sodium and sugar, which help stabilize and restore the body's electrolyte balance.
By contrast, energy drinks, which are popular among youth contain large amounts of caffeine and sugar, along with ingredients such as taurine, guarana, ginseng green tea and vitamins.
Thomas, Morris and Stevenson showed the difference between chocolate milk and two other replacement drinks (fluid and carbohydrate energy drinks) when consumed by nine well-trained male bicyclists before and during low to moderate exercise. In the study, "participants cycled 51 percent and 43 percent longer after ingesting chocolate milk than after ingesting carbohydrate replacement drink and fluid replacement drink, respectively."
So, which is better for refueling the body after a workout: chocolate milk or energy drinks?
Pritchett, Bishop, Pritchett, Green and Katica compared chocolate milk and a similar carbohydrate replacement beverage among 10 well-trained male bicyclists before and during high intensity exercise. The only significant difference they found was a higher creatine kinase level in the carbohydrate replacement drink from the beginning to end of the trials, while the creatine kinase levels of chocolate milk remained about the same throughout.
Creatine kinase is an enzyme present in muscles and the brain that uses adenosine triphosphate or ATP. ATP is the main energy source for cells of the body, while adenosine diphosphate is the main energy source for muscles and the brain. In other words, the consumption of a carbohydrate replacement drink required more energy, which depleted the athletes' muscles more quickly and slightly increased their level of exhaustion.
While the jury is not in entirely these two small preliminary studies suggest that chocolate milk appears better at refueling the body after workouts compared to energy drinks. Clearly, though, additional studies using more diverse and longer samples are warranted.
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— From UWIRE. Arragon Perronefor The Daily Campus at Connecticut University
HUMOR
As economy recovers,knickknacks a great investment
A is my fifth semester as a Kansan columnist draws to a close. I have realized
to a close, I have realized one thing: humor simply does not sell. People just don't want to laugh anymore! And I can see why not. We live in dangerous times. North Korea is attacking South Korea. WikiLeaks is continuing to reveal the dirty underbelly of international diplomacy. The Situation is making $5 million per year
Yes, it's a terrifying world, and for that reason I have decided to actually do something meaningful.I want to use my incredible intelligence and wide-ranging expertise to make a real impact on the world.I want to help people,not make them interrupt class with raucous laughter as they read yet another of my hilarious opinion-page gems.
That's why instead of writing a humor column, I will use this space to answer YOUR questions. I want to make YOUR life better. I'm now taking calls. Andrew from Overland Park is on line one. You're on the air!
"With the financial markets beginning to show some signs of stabilizing, what do you see as a safe long-term investment to add to my portfolio?"
Good question! Now is DEFINITELY the time to start thinking long-term, and if you're looking for something to establish a solid investing foundation with, knick-knacks are the way to go! Knick-knacks have been consistently on the rise for months now, and I don't see that stopping any time soon. It's time to invest heavily in knick-knacks while the share price is still affordable! Knick-knacks are my hot buy on the week!
If you're not quite ready to get into knick-knacks, I recommend looking at junk, rubbish or bric-a-brak. All are safe, reliable picks that might not make you a fortune, but will definitely provide a solid return. Clutter has been low for a while, but I see it making a comeback soon. Keep an eye on that stock for the next
Under Observation
Of course, not everything is a good buy right now. I urge you to sell trifle, gewgaw and whatnot as soon as you can. The trinket market is saturated, and everything under that umbrella is poison! I'd also steer clear of gimcrack and bauble, especially with the second quarter projections the way they are.
BY ALEX NICHOLS anichols@kansan.com
But my stone-cold sell of the week has to be the useless crap piling up in the basement. I have a feeling the useless crap piling up in the basement is going to be sold in droves in the very near future, possibly through another entity such as the garage or yard. Consumer confidence in the useless crap piling up in the basement is at an all-time low, and we saw what happened when people started to bail on all that shit gathering dust in the attic back in '05.
My sleeper pick of the week is ... whatever's lying around the house. People have written off whatever's lying around the house as non-viable, but I see signs of life in that stock, especially after last week's announcement that whatever's lying around the house will be consolidated with stuff I found when I was cleaning out the garage. This is huge, people! Get into this stock while you still can't
few weeks.
NEXT CALLER!
Nichols is a senior from Stilwell in creative writing.
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"Nice article—the variety of campus sculpture is another unique and terrific aspect of the KU experience. Just a reminder that the Spencer Museum of Art has recently added 15 outdoor sculptures to its cell-phone audio tour program, "An Ear for Art." You can access it online or, obviously, via cell phone."
"Eyezahahh" in response to "Undergraduate curriculum undergoing review" on Dec. 2.
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