As I make my final journal entry and blog post of 2014 I find myself waxing nostalgically for the year gone by. Like all other calendar years of our life before it, 2014 had its personal, political and economic highs and lows along with its special moments and of course its fair share of forgettable ones. For me personally…
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Wrapping up Volume 40
On New Year’s Day 1975 I took a walk in the freezing cold down to the neighborhood Quik Trip and purchased a spiral notebook, one with a Friends of the Earth photo of a hazy forest scene entitled Pines in the Mist. It became Volume 1 of my personal daily journal. I began keeping a daily personal journal in the…
Continue ReadingThe 2014 Season of Suffering is over for OU
A season that started with so much promise for the Oklahoma Sooners has mercifully ended with a humiliating loss to the Clemson Tigers in the Russell Athletic Bowl (a humbling post-season consolation for such a proud program) by a final score of 40 to 6, and it really wasn’t that close! The 2014 Sooner campaign began on the wave of the still…
Continue ReadingAmong the day’s local sights
This afternoon while driving south on Riverside Drive between River Spirit Casino and 91st Street, my lady friend and I were able to capture a photo of something not often seen in the Tulsa area…….not one but TWO bald eagles: One other thing of note that I could not miss was how dry the adjacent Arkansas River was. …
Continue ReadingPushing back against Big Oil
Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a controversial technique utilizing the injection of various chemicals and water to free natural gas and petroleum from deep rock formations for extraction. It has been around and used for several years and it does work for extracting those natural resources which are sought. It however is not a benign method. Its economic benefits have recently…
Continue ReadingMovie Review: Unbroken
I will state for the record that I have never been a big fan of Angelina Jolie but in her directorial debut she really knocked it out of the park! Unbroken is a pull-no-punches story of survival and service to the nation under the most difficult of circumstances. It is the true account of the war…
Continue ReadingA Christmas Truce
One hundred years ago today during the first year of the Great War, German and British soldiers suffering through the common misery of trench warfare along the Western Front ceased fire and celebrated a common holiday………together. All accounts indicate this was an action carried out by individual units of front line soldiers on both sides…
Continue ReadingRemembering the end of America’s first Vietnam
Two hundred years ago this Christmas Eve representatives of the United States and Great Britain negotiated an end to the War of 1812 in the Flemish city of Ghent. The Treaty of Ghent restored relations between the two nations to Status Quo Antebellum. Hostilities still existed until the treaty was ratified by the governments of both nations which for…
Continue ReadingThe misery of living in Obama’s America
I am not going to spend a lot of time or bandwidth on this but I would like to express that given where we as a nation were in terms of key economic indicators at 12:01 PM January 20th, 2009 I would prefer to remain where we are now rather than march backward. What’s…
Continue ReadingWhen North Korea says “Jump!” who asks “How high?”
This week’s cyber-hacking of Sony Pictures by agents of the government of North Korea has brought multiple issues to the attention of our nation. Among them the focus of investing resources preparing for the next conflict instead of the last one. We’ve known about nature of future hostile actions against our nation for some time and now here it…
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