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Love us or loathe us, ‘thanks for reading’ all the same
Back in journalism school, our school newspaper's editorial adviser used to preach something along the lines of, "If half the people are mad at...
Black Friday: A manipulated means to a profitable end
It's that time of year again when TV news stations fill holiday A-blocks with a dozen stories on Black Friday, the day where America's frightening obsession...
Sundaze: The bat logo and the palm tree
Poetry Second
Palm Tree
by Wesley Tinga
I look outside my window and behold
Palm trees in the distant land
Where land enjoys harmony with the sky
Yonder the majestic landscape
The...
OKCPS principals’ conflict borne of legacy problems
I have been dreading this post.
I had hoped to sidestep the questions raised by Tim Willert’s article Monday regarding the criticism OKCPS principals and vice...
Holiday stress: One man’s ‘scientific’ analysis
Holiday stress
It's not that I hate this time of year — I'm no Grinch — but as I get older, I'm finding more reasons...
Northeast OKC hindered by ‘ghosts in the nursery’
I must say upfront that this is one of the most unremittingly depressing things that I have written.
The mere repetition of the statistics below...
‘Hope is a choice’ that can make all the difference
In 1985, Czechoslovakian playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel sat in prison while his country was under the control of the Soviet Union.
At that time,...
OKC needs an art-house theater for top-10 films of 2016
Oklahoma City needs an independent art-house theater, because the top-10 films of 2016 deserve an audience but might not find a venue in which to play here.
In...
Editorial: To repeal and replace Obamacare, GOP needs a plan
The political clamor about an impending "repeal and replace" of the Affordable Care Act is loud, aggravating and completely in vain unless Republican leaders...
Forget particles: Physics actually rely on ‘states of space’
(Editor's note: The following piece is excerpted from the fifth chapter of Tales of the Quantum by Art Hobson.)
Great art and great science have...
