Bob Bates, the millionaire make-believe cop who killed a real-life robbery suspect last week, didn’t just donate equipment to Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz’s police agency. He also managed Glanz’s 2012 campaign, was a campaign donor, and took Glanz and his high-ranking officer[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Oklahoma’
April 17th, 2015 - 3:47 pm § in Misc.
Tulsa sheriff labels lavish gifts from make-believe cop his “personal life”
Now only religious people can get married in Oklahoma
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[...]
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[...]