COVID vaccine: Never doubt what nobody is sure about
Charlie looks pretty discouraged, but here in Oklahoma it seems that a fair number of people have been able to book a COVID-19 vaccine...
Oklahoma Legislature: A mask for thee, but not for me
Ah, yes: A mask for thee, but not for me. As the 2021 Oklahoma legislative session starts, there are some new pandemic-related guidelines in...
Quite the quandary: Q followers feel let down
Where do we Q from here? The broad question about the Q Anon movement has been asked by many recently, but with Joe Biden's...
Some call the assault on the Capitol unprecedented, but we have seen this before
I’ve been writing about Oklahoma’s place in the American master narrative for a while now. My sense that we’re the repository for the nation’s...
Pop quiz: What is jeopardizing the state of Oklahoma?
This week in "How We Are Prolonging Bad Things" we have Gov. Kevin Stitt versus parents and teachers. It's a bout for the ages,...
Imagine the day-to-day life of the Q Shaman
This might be a lukewarm take at this point, but what the country and world witnessed on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol was simply...
Book review: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn examine America’s epidemic of despair
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope begins in Kristof’s hometown of Yamhill, Oregon, with his childhood neighbor, Dee, hiding from her...
Letter: U.S. Sen. James Lankford ‘discounting the American people’s voice’
To the editors:
U.S. Sen. James Lankford’s position against counting state certified electoral votes is a profile in cowardice, if not worse — attempted sedition.
Loyalists...
The year that was: 2020 blew up the bathroom
Bathroom humor. It's about the only thing 2020 deserves at this point.
Normally, as we transition into a new year, there comes a time where...
Visuals of our culture: 2020 in photographs
Photographing the pandemic year of 2020 has certainly had its challenges.
Most notably for me were the cancellations of so many events, particularly art and...
