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Media narratives: Bob Stoops as postmodernist sage
(Editor's note: This excerpt from How Postmodernism Explains Football, and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum focuses on news conferences in which OU football...
Rebuttal: Your Oklahoma Standard ‘myth’ is my blue sky
The Oklahoma Standard is not a myth.
It is a dream. A goal for people who believe in this place. Our place. It doesn’t really...
Red Earth Festival: ‘What matters is what will remain’
As I’ve traveled the country, I’ve witnessed the widespread cultural clash over white people wearing headdresses, the Washington Redskins mascot debate, and even speculative...
Political Suicide: Slippery slope to the six six feet
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world....
Sundaze: American Ninja Distraction and the bears
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world....
OKCPS suspensions more complex than just race
Conservative school reformer Mike Petrilli has criticized the U.S. Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and its recent agreement to settle a complaint against the Oklahoma City...
WTF: Legislative panhandling and government inaction
A few local media types took to their respective formats to bemoan the legislature's lax attitude toward completing any meaningful work earlier this week,...
Reproductive rights: ‘Women deserve a dignified and responsible choice’
In 1989 (another summer), Public Enemy was rapping about fighting the discriminatory powers that be on the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s seminal Do The...
TNT ‘Shaqtin A Fool’ in Thunder, Spurs series
Of all the rough nights and bad performances that can be part of a tough NBA playoff series between the OKC Thunder and the San...
Pure babbittry: American Ninja Warrior at Okla. Capitol
Babbittry. Look it up. Try a dictionary that isn’t on your phone. Not that there’ll be a picture of Oklahoma State Sen. David Holt (R-OKC), but there...
