It was made official on Sunday, OU is in the 2015 College Football Playoff semifinal! The Sooners slipped to #4 in the rankings on Friday but will play the #1 Clemson Tigers in the semifinal game in the Orange Bowl in Miami on New Years Eve. That very same evening #2 Alabama will play #3 Michigan State in…
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Movie review: Trumbo
A little slow down over the holiday this past week gave me and a few friends the opportunity to take in a feature presentation at Tulsa’s Circle Cinema in historic Whittier Square. Showing on Screen 2 on Thanksgiving Night was director Jay Roach’s biopic Trumbo, a dramatization of the life, work and struggles of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter…
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Sooner Bedlam Blowout!
On a cold November night in Stillwater our beloved Oklahoma Sooners eliminated any doubt of team weakness by hanging 44 points on the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the first half! OU went on to claim their ninth Big 12 Title by posting a final score of 58 to 23 in a clearly dominating performance before an ESPN…
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Refugees: a personal testimony
I was going to save this particular subject for an upcoming anniversary of a proud moment and defining event in my own life. However, because of all the media-facilitated scaremongering by political demagogues and aspiring Presidential candidates, I simply could no longer wait. I think that what is being broadcast by the media sound chamber is as fundamentally wrong as it is offensively irritating. Am I out of line to wish…
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The VP visits the Mother Road’s most conservative stretch
I remember the last time I was at a venue which was inundated with Secret Service agents. It was April 1991 and the location was the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. I was in Phase I of my nurse anesthesia training and my class was in the process of getting our ACLS certifications renewed. It…
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A Democratic General
The advent of term limits in the Oklahoma state legislature has contributed much to the reduction in the number of career politicians along this the most conservative stretch of old Route 66. It is no longer possible to be a lifelong legislator in this state when you are limited to six two year terms as…
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The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
Ninety-seven years ago this morning Paris, France time the guns on the Western Front of the Great War fell silent. Though the official end of hostilities came with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th, 1919, all fighting between the Allied Powers and Imperial Germany ceased with the armistice declared at the…
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Steeped in the privilege of the loyalty oath
Anyone in the over 40 demographic who pays attention to politics likely still has vivid memories of the 2004 Presidential campaign. That particular year holds a special significance for Yours Truly as that was when I actually got down off the fence and chose sides by joining a political party for the first time in…
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The nucleus of a winning message
We are still over three months away from Primary season for the 2016 General Election and sensory overload from candidate interviews and rhetoric seems to be the new normal. Turn on any cable news outlet or talk radio program and much of the time it is like trying to take a drink of water from a wide open fire hydrant. As is often…
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Propaganda, nonsense and a thinning herd of candidates
It was a very newsworthy week in both the nation and along this, the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. Yes, we had a visit from a GOP Presidential hopeful in Tulsa this past Thursday. Dr. Ben Carson, who has surged past Mr. Donald Trump in some polls, was on hand at a local…
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