We Oklahoma Democrats who stayed home and held the fort so to speak were firmly riveted to our TV screens every evening through Thursday this past week. Even though it happened in Philadelphia, PA, it is not every day of the World we get to see such history in the making. Nominating the first woman…
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Marketing Trump’s invented reality
Let it never be said we do not live in interesting times. The American political stage departed from interesting this past week and immersed the nation in the surreal. For the record allow me to clarify that the terms “interesting” and “surreal” are not synonyms. In case you missed it, the Republican National Committee held…
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An honor and a privilege to serve
At the end of a week where the wicked World seemed to be imploding all over from Dallas to Nice to Turkey, we here along the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 have kept plugging along. Aside from a few local candidates doing their due diligence of door knocking in their respective districts, several…
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Documentary film review: A Better Life
My dear brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, you all no doubt recall how often I enjoy writing glowing testimonials of the venues, enclaves, social organizations and events that make living along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 tolerable for people like us. I had another such opportunity…
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Feeling a gentle breeze of change
Primary election week has come and gone along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 and after a record number of challenges to state legislative seats, only a few incumbents failed muster with voters in their respective districts. There are some thirteen legislative races going to runoff election on August 23rd, two Democratic…
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Movie review: Free State of Jones
There is nothing that succeeds better at debunking popular mythology like using a seemingly far fetched but true story to do it. In light all the recent hoopla over how a certain former battlefield standard was all about “heritage not hate,” it would behoove all who bought that load of nonsense without question to do…
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Lines of battle are drawn
It has been quite an eventful week of happenings, some wonderful, some expected and some extremely awful in the nation as well as along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. I have been biding my time waiting for things to evolve before offering my meager contribution to the discussion. Over the past…
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Boston at 40 and rockin’ the Joint!
From the first time I heard More Than A Feeling play on KMOD in early 1977 the signature sound of Boston has been an integral part of the musical tapestry that is the backdrop of my life. At a stop on their 40th Anniversary Tour, Boston wowed a full house at The Joint of Tulsa’s…
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Reaping the bitter fruits of rotten governance
The second session of the 55th Oklahoma Legislature adjourned this past Friday amid an abundance of sunshine pumping from those in the majority party of how they passed a budget before their deadline. The outlook for a great number of the state’s citizens is increasingly more grim as so many less affluent bore the brunt…
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An abortion bill veto and the big picture theatrics
As the local legislative candidates have been organizing and meeting to discuss ideas of what messaging might work in our favor on specific issues, I have been able to impart some things I have learned in my dozen or so years of working on various political campaigns. One thing I have taken due note of…
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