We are now 160 or so days into the Trump era and I have been watching and listening in mostly silent and at times stunned amazement at how the polarized factions of the American nation are evolving. I must say I am not surprised by most of what has been attempted by the GOP-controlled Congress. …
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Watergate: An enduring memory of my youth
All democracy is a work in progress. For better or worse and despite being under constant threat of compromise since its founding, the grand American experiment has met the demands and overcome multiple imposed stresses as well as all manner of intense strain up to and including civil war. In my lifetime that radical idea…
Continue ReadingThe end of an era
Have you ever tried to take a drink of water off a wide open fire hydrant? That is what it has been like given this has been such a heavy and fast moving news week. As if nothing could shake the most conservative and football crazy stretch of Old Route 66 harder than an injection…
Continue ReadingUs & Them: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters rocks the BOK
As I have said many times before, music forms the tapestry that serves as our backdrop of life. Mine contains a fair amount of the body of work of the group Pink Floyd. Tulsa’s BOK Center served as the classic rock music center of the universe this past Thursday evening when Roger Waters graced this…
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