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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 […]

A former Baptist minister was acquitted of allegedly propositioning an undercover male police officer, The Associated Press reported.   An outspoken critic of same-sex marriage, Lonnie Latham, 61, was found not guilty March 7 of the misdemeanor charge of offering to engage in an act of lewdness, stemming from his Jan. 3 arrest outside an […]

Yep. If you are visiting legislators with something written in hand, Oklahoma’s state House Republicans might want a look at it first.   According to The Associated Press, a former state representative campaigning for abortion rights was detained for passing out a decades-old picture of a woman who died during a “back alley” abortion.   […]

Oklahoma’s own Sen. James Inhofe got a crowd cheering quickly at a recent Conservative Political Action Conference, a Washington Post columnist reported. Here at CFN we’re still scratching our heads about his method.   “I have been called ” my kids are all aware of this ” dumb, crazy man, science abuser, Holocaust denier, villain […]

Guess what? If you stick a keg with beer dregs in it into a fire with the lid clamped on, you getcherself a gol-dang explosion! No sheet, by golly.   At least, that’s what a couple of Adair folks discovered when they did just that, a recent story reported.   According to The Associated Press, […]

Apparently, space aliens have lousy lobbyists.   Against all opposition, the state Senate passed a bill banning the implanting of a microchip into an Oklahoman’s body without the consent of said Okie.   Senate Bill 47, by Sen. Brian Crain, R-Tulsa, would empower the state Health Department to levy a fine of $10,000 a day […]

Republicans and Democrats have been fighting over a lot of things lately down at the state Capitol. Bills on abortion certainly have rallied passionate feelings on both sides of the political aisle. An immigration-reform measure had sharp words flowing and daggers drawn before it easily passed the House of Representatives. And, of course, the old […]