Not content to deny the legal rights of marriage to gays, Oklahoma’s crazed Republican legislature today relegated atheists and agnostics to singlehood. According to Democratic Underground, “A bill that would restrict the right to marry to people of faith and [require] all marriage lice[...]
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March 14th, 2015 - 6:52 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Oklahoma U. should repatriate this Nazi-looted artwork to its owner
This artwork, painted by Dutch-French impressionist Camille Pissarro in 1886, is in the University of Oklahoma’s art collection, donated years ago by oil tycoon Aaron Weitzenhoffer’s wife. In the art world, “provenance” is a big deal. Basically, the term refers to the chain o[...]
March 10th, 2015 - 9:01 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Do expelled Oklahoma U. students deserve forgiveness?
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has a history of racism. Parker Rice, one of two students expelled from Oklahoma University today, and an ex-member of the now-disbanded OU chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, issued a statement tonight apologizing for the incident and denying he’s[...]
February 19th, 2015 - 11:24 pm § in Politics
Oklahoma GOP legislators seek to ban AP course and require students to read Reagan speeches instead
This is what happens when you let partisan legislators dictate public school curriculums. “The bill, authored by Oklahoma Rep. Dan Fisher, designates a total of 58 documents that “shall form the base level of academic content for all United States History courses offered in the schools in t[...]
January 24th, 2015 - 5:30 pm § in Politics
Radical Republicans: Is this Oklahoma legislator America’s most virulent homophobe?
State representative Sally Kern has introduced the following bills in Oklahoma’s legislature: 1. House Bill 1599, the “Preservation and Sovereignty of Marriage Act”: Taxpayer dollars and government salaries can’t be used for “the licensing or support of same-sex marriag[...]
January 24th, 2015 - 5:05 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Oklahoma GOP legislators learn they can’t pay teachers fast-food wages
Oklahoma has a teacher crisis. After slashing school funding by nearly a fourth since 2008 — more than any other state — Oklahoma is losing teachers. Its teacher pay ranks near the bottom, and its teachers haven’t received a raise in 8 years. They’re leaving for jobs in other[...]
January 17th, 2015 - 8:29 pm § in Uncategorized
In Oklahoma, a white guy shooting a black police chief isn’t a crime
“The man who allegedly shot an Oklahoma police chief four times during an attempted arrest likely won’t face criminal charges. … Horton shot Police Chief Louis Ross three times in the chest and once in the arm after the chief and four Washita County sheriff’s deputies raided[...]
October 20th, 2014 - 9:48 am § in Misc.
NEW LAWS From Oklahoma: Naming The Arts District For a KKK Leader
Did you know that the legal name for our highway 99 is still Jefferson Davis Highway? Well, at least we don’t have signs celebrating that stupidity. Over there in Tulsa OK, however, the city fathers have named streets and memorials after the local KKK guru, Wyatt Tate Brady. Now they want [...]
NEW LAWS From Oklahoma
House Bill 2170 removes “spring-type knives” from the list of prohibited weapons to carry, either on one’s person or in purses or bags. Leave pistols and revolvers (unless you have a permit); shotguns or rifles (unless you’re hunting—with a permit, of course); daggers; bowie knives; dirk [...]
Seattleite Found Dead in Oklahoma City
Former Resident of the Woodland Park Zoo, Chai the Asian Elephant was found dead in the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical garden. She was 37.[...]