Chicken-Fried News

Stating the obvious is sometimes too obvious, depending on the context. Take Gov. Brad Henry and the battle over the state budget that erupted inside the Capitol during the past week. Henry’s folksy talk and less-than-poetic speechmaking ability are attaining legendary status. The gov’s annoyance recently was inflamed when legislative leaders finalized a budget while […]

 This just in: College students like to do it! It’s true, according to a report by The Oklahoma Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma. A March 28 article quoted OU students as saying: “It’s true, at parties you see people hooking up all the time” and “So many hook-ups happen between college […]

Have our Canadian cousins gotten too wily, or something? Seems so, since propagators of a Great White North-originated mail scam decided to shift to the south, narrowing their targets in on Ada, recently. According to a story in the Ada Evening News, a Pontotoc County resident recently received a UPS envelope sporting his name. Inside? […]

Kids these days. They just have no respect for their elders! What to do? Well, one father in Stillwater knows how to get respect: He allegedly mailed his son a wing from a dead bird covered with a powdery substance, according to court records. According to the records, Brian Keith Hogan, 49, faces a preliminary […]

One hates to kick a man when he can’t kick back (what with his shoes being on the wrong feet and all), but Chicken-Fried News wouldn’t be doing its civic duty if it didn’t mention Tulsa author William Bernhardt’s March 18 drunken driving arrest. This is not to be confused with Bernhardt’s Feb. 23 one, […]

Right now, Joshua Key might be rethinking telling the world he took off to the Great White North.   The former Oklahoman made headlines when he ditched the Army and then fled to Canada in 2004 as a deserter. He wrote about his hellish experiences in Iraq ” disembodied-head soccer-playing and all ” in his […]

Grab your tangerines, Oklahoma, The Flaming Lips are going Broadway.   Front man Wayne Coyne confirmed to www.ew.com that the space crusaders are set to team with “West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin and Broadway producer Des McAnuff (“The Who’s Tommy”) to produce a musical version of their 2002 album “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.” (Not […]

Is there any way for Oklahoma’s senators to make national news that doesn’t make it look like the Sooner State is represented by those relatives you hope don’t show up for the party?   The latest installment of wackiness from Oklahoma legislators came via Mr. Sunshine himself, Sen. James Inhofe. Public embarrassment, meet Inhofe. Inhofe, […]

It’s been a tough 12 months for the public image of America’s fraternities. First, “Borat” captured a trio of drunken University of Southern Carolina brothers to make racist and sexist comments on camera. Then, the documentary “Raw Deal” hit DVD (reviewed in last week’s Oklahoma Gazette), showing in graphic detail the alleged rape of a […]

According to a spate of recent stories, an Ada woman faked a would-be hate crime against herself.   Police say Sarah Kaspereit of Ada admitted to them that she lied about an attack on her in which she had claimed two men ambushed her in front of her house, according to The Oklahoman.   The […]