When it comes to naming a creek after beat-generation icon William Burroughs, Douglas County commissioners have a lot of opinions about having no opinion.

Monday morning, commissioners failed to reach a decisive conclusion about whether to support efforts to name the creek after Burroughs.

The unnamed creek -- known informally as the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Tributary -- cuts through east Lawrence and past 1927 Learnard Ave., where "The Naked Lunch" author Burroughs lived the last 15 years of his life...