Commentary
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Gridiron grit: My promise to NonDoc and Oklahoma
My high-school football coach used to tell our team, “Life is like football, and football is like life.”
At the time, it seemed like standard...
Editorial: Terrible media relations dog Scott Pruitt
Last week, beleaguered Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt saw his office receive even more national criticism, this time for the attempted exclusion of...
Oklahoma humidity: Turn around, don’t drown … in the air
Anyone else feel like they're wearing not one — but two — wool sweaters when they step outside? It must be summer in Oklahoma.
I...
All we want for Christmas is more COVID-19 vaccine
It's a Christmas miracle! Or, might be? It's hard to say how the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine will go, or how many...
John F. Kennedy conspiracies live on via internet
So the CIA and FBI have released more documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and it seems there is still...
Christmas guilt at in-laws gives way to happiness, love
Five years ago this Christmas, I proposed to my wife. Around the same time, I spent my first Christmas with my wife and her...
Be careful searching, algorithm overlords are watching
It's happened to all of us. You're searching for a new vacuum cleaner online, and the moment after you press "enter" to search for...
The man set free by Hurricane Katrina
At 5 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2005, the National Hurricane Center warned of a tropical depression in the Bahamas.
Six days later, Hurricane Katrina would level much...
Faces in the crowd: A visage-focused photo essay
Few subjects are more ubiquitous in photography than human faces.
Portraits were one of the earliest uses when the technology was new. Naturally, it's still...
Female comedians offering laughs with a purpose
We live in a world of serious problems: terrorism, poverty, disaster. You don’t have to look far to find sadness. Thankfully, there are a...