Culture
Giant Woody Guthrie projected onto Oklahoma Capitol
This Capitol is your Capitol, this Capitol is my Capitol.
That's the bastardized ditty I hum to myself every time I experience plumbing problems and drive two miles...
Sundaze: Reporting live from Mogadishu
Reporting from Mogaadishuuuuu…
By Kariuki wa Nyamu
Grenades are hurled! Bullets meet bullets, in
human raids and sink deep into flesh, as rifles take final assault!
Men perish...
In TV spots, Chickasaws specialize in revisionist history
What exactly are the Chickasaws selling in all those television commercials?
Are they advertising for tourists to visit their cultural center? Are they trying to...
No, I will not calm down (and neither should you)
A now-viral New York Times op-ed by Sabrina Tavernise spells out a disturbing refrain I have heard for a few weeks now. It begs...
Educator’s guide to Islam a step in the right direction
All you need is love, or at least information.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter of Oklahoma (CAIR-OK) released its Educator's Guide to Islamic Religious...
For Kyrie Irving, ball may be life, but Earth is flat
I'm revisiting the topic of Flat Earth this week because, lo and behold, it has popped up again in a very visible way. I...
A Country Girl’s Cry: ‘Nobody gives her tears justice’
A Country Girl's Cry
by Bipin Khatiwada
Down a country road,
She walks with clumsy steps
With mystery on her face.
She goes to town to stitch fabrics,
And is paid...
President Trump: Undisputed champ of microaggression
Microaggression is not a new term, but, according to some media, it is a nouveau concept invented by overly sensitive, millennial college “snowflakes” who...
The bleeding man, the man in charge, and Jack
Jack is not a name that is typically written on a birth certificate. Usually, it's a derivation of John or Jason or some family...
Of bookstores and ignorance: ‘How do you know?’
I read it in a letter to the editor of what used to be called a “journal of opinion” — a letter concerning an...