When your only tool is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.
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Winning Blue again in a sea of Red
The polls have closed in Oklahoma Senate District 34 (Owasso, Northeast Tulsa, Sperry, Skiatook, Turley, Collinsville) and the final vote tally in the Special Election went to the Democrat in the race, Owasso teacher and football coach J.J. Dossett! In a district that has been a GOP bastion since 1990, Senator-elect Dossett proved that a…
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Celebrating twenty years of Internet access
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
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Embracing the future: the outlook for 2016
We are off and running in the first week of 2016 and the future is upon us and in our face in this Presidential election year. So far the GOP front runner, the confident Donald Trump, has proclaimed the $2 million per week he is going to be spending on advertising as “probably a waste.” …
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Sooners fall a Tiger short in the Orange Bowl
Sooner Magic seemed nowhere to be found in the second half as the Oklahoma Sooners finished their season in south Florida against the #1 ranked Clemson Tigers falling to them in the second consecutive bowl game, this time by a score of 37 to 17. After a competitive first half after which the Sooners led…
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2015 year in review
As the hours tick by in anticipation of celebrating the New Year, I wax philosophical about the year gone by. I am thankful to be alive having survived the year and the daily hazards of an increasingly more dangerous World. I am also thankful for my association with those individuals and organizations that make my…
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My human experience, Volume 41
As year’s end approaches this week it is time to reflect on not only this year which will soon be gone but all others in which we have lived and experienced being human. My final entry in my 2015 CE personal journal will be made on New Year’s Eve and will mark the end of Volume 41…
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Looking back on a watershed moment
What did you do in your youth? How did you spend your young adult years? When did you know you were finally a grown-up? What changed in you to validate the fact you were over that big hump, never to return to being a child? Three and a half decades ago this evening I confronted…
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Sooners in College Football Playoff semifinal!!!
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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