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We’re back on Earth Time – standard time – and many people are less than pleased. They think we should maintain daylight savings time year-round. Oklahoma is one of 19 states that have passed resolutions or legislation calling
Read moreWell, two months of Black Friday sales finally came to an end Friday – followed by Small Business Saturday and yesterday’s Cyber Monday. Like late night audiences being told when to clap, American consumers have been programmed to spend,
Read moreThe death of former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris Saturday reminds us of his lifelong crusade against wealth inequality in the US. In a speech at the University of Oklahoma in 2014, he noted: “America’s middle class has shrunk
Read moreMathematics advances from the very simple to realms of mysterious erudition with formulas and equations written using symbols that most of us cannot enunciate, much less understand. The most famous equation in modern science is E = mc2 . E stands
Read moreI don’t need personal connections to awaken my concern for our warming planet and the dangers that it creates. But, that doesn’t stop Mother Nature from occasionally grabbing me by the shoulders and shaking the complacency out of me.
Read moreSome folks take advantage of mail-in voting. Those of us who cast ballots during the early voting period or who are voting today can reinforce what everybody but infantile sore losers already know. The American voting system is in
Read moreUnlike us, insects detect ultraviolet light rays. Hawks’ eyesight far exceeds ours. Bears can smell us from afar. We create reality. Some people delude themselves by choosing their illusions. The concerted Republican effort to demonize minorities and the
Read moreJohn D. MacDonald’s savage salvager Travis McGee once observed: “Reality is a curious convention. It is the special norm for each of us. Based upon the evidence of our own senses, we have established our own version of reality.”
Read moreDonald Trump stacked the Supreme Court that relegated American women to second-class citizenship, the Supreme Court that put the health of individual American women at the whim of medically-ignorant politicians – at the whim of politicians and politicizing police
Read moreDo not fault Oklahoma State Supt. Ryan Walters’s competence. His past disservice as the governor’s education czar and his campaign for office told us that his goal was to destroy public education in Oklahoma. With the state ranked
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