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Oklahoma Republican legislators seem to have embraced conflicts-of-interest as their new business model. Last month, Clifton Adcock of The Frontier reported, “A state representative whose district has seen explosive growth in the number of poultry farms over the past year and
Read moreThe privileged and powerful resent dissent. They will muster their considerable forces to stamp out any threat to their position. Thus, we have the concerted attacks on Christine Blasey Ford for accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape
Read moreHurricane Florence, the latest worst-storm-ever has been pounding and flooding the Carolinas five days as I write this, which reminds me of the warning from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or
Read moreAbout 20 years ago President Bill Clinton floated his smoke screen defense for his lousy behavior by telling us, “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” About a month ago President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani announced, “The truth isn’t the
Read moreScattershooting – which requires one to wonder who now carries the banner for the greater athleticism of one-platoon football … Election season kicked off Monday, so I’ll try to get some summer observations off the plate …Did you see where
Read moreWhile letting the legal system pile up corruption convictions against all the president’s men – with Russia’s Agent Orange-hair in Mueller’s crosshairs – and watching law-and-order Republicans crawfish toward hypocrisy with these illegalities just as the irreligious right ignores blatant
Read moreI answer my landline, which provides consistently higher quality service than my friend’s fancy phones. Thus, I deal with a couple annoyance calls a day – from the deep-voiced dude allegedly representing law enforcement personnel, but whose organization is highlighted
Read moreThe crossword puzzle clue was “Led.” The answer was 11 letters. Nothing popped into my head, but, as I worked over that corner, the word began to take shape. Finally, with about half the letters showing, I smiled and finished
Read moreOn Aug. 1, Science Daily cited a report from Australia’s Monash University: “Heat wave deaths will rise steadily by 2080 as globe warms up.” That same day, NBC announced: “Rising seas could knock out the internet — and sooner than scientists
Read morePretty miserable over the past week. Sent me searching for historic heat. I was shocked to find PlantMaps saying that the record heat for Duncan was 111 degrees, recorded June 28, 1980. My memory took me back to 1964 when visiting
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