politics
A Stolen Conservative Memo on How to Crush Abortion Dear Conservative lawmakers, At any given time, there are millions of pregnant women in the state of Oklahoma who harbor an internal malice towards their unborn children. Without our intervention, these children will be at the mercy of women who would terminate their lives without [...]
Super Tuesday is coming up, and Oklahomans will once again flock to the polls. By Oklahomans, I mean the very few who will actually be voting. It can safely be assumed that Barack Obama will be the Democratic Party’s nominee this time around, which means that the Super Tuesday primary is being held for the [...]
On Monday news circulated that Oklahoma Senate Bill 1433 had passed the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services with a vote of 5-2. The bill would provide personhood status to zygotes. Not sure what that is? It is the very first cell formed when ovum and sperm are joined. This single cell is what [...]
Crap, it’s an election year again. I can always tell, because my email inbox starts to fill up with desperate appeals for cash from various political causes and campaigns. The most entertaining thing about these emails, aside from the fact that I always list my cats when forms ask for my name (“Mr. Breakfast, do [...]
My new friend Angie and I are walking past the library downtown, watching as the red steel elevators carry workers up the side of the Devon World Headquarters downtown. “Shit man, shit, I got vertigo, can’t do that shit, man!” she says. The Crystal Bridge puts on an LED light show in the distance, and [...]
Oscar Ameringer is one of the great nearly forgotten voices of Oklahoma history. Ameringer was one of the leading lights of the Oklahoma Socialist Party, a newspaper editor, a political activist and organizer, a crusader against the KKK, was very nearly elected mayor of Oklahoma City, and was indicted for sedition for writing an insufficiently [...]
One November day in 2011 at Kerr Park, a driver going the wrong way on a one way street yelled out his window, “Get a job, hippies!” The hippies yelled back, “You’re going the wrong way, idiot!” Now look. I know that these bleeding hearts were just trying to help [...]
The age of urban chickens is upon us. Or, at least, it’s upon Tulsa, Austin, New York City, Portland, and a variety of other cities nationwide. All of these cities allow people to keep backyard hens for their egg-consuming, chicken-watching enjoyment. Residents can buy fancy, architect-designed coops that any urbanite would be proud to own. [...]
(Editor’s Note- This is not an Oklahoma related article except in the sense that all college football news is in some way Oklahoma related) It’s not inconceivable. I have heard the word inconceivable used by commentators this past week to describe the morally repugnant inaction of football coach Joe Paterno and others at Penn State [...]
Herbert Mitgang. Dangerous Dossiers. New York. Primus. 1996. 340 pages. ISBN 1-55611-485-0 Much has been written about the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations; the cold war era domestic spying operation that tracked civil rights workers, leftists, and other “subversives”. Less well known is the widespread surveillance of artists and writers of the same era. Allen Ginsburg, James [...]
