Now, you are letting advertisers get away with it. The Ruff Life ad recently read, “When life gives you titties, milk them for all they’re worth.” If this is appropriate for a rag that has a wide readership and is easily picked up by children, then why do you have editors? I used to advertise […]
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Teeing off about trivia
Now you did say “arguably,” so here is the argument: TLO has around 10 to 15 teams per night per venue. TLO has two shows a week, one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday. Challenge Entertainment has several shows Monday through Thursday and multiple venues. On Wednesday, while TLO is running 10 to 15 teams […]
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Rich folks pay plenty
Something seems to be mistakenly, if not conveniently, missed in Tiffee’s logic. “The poor paying more?” I don’t think so. The following are pretty close estimates of the bottom of the 20 percent bottoms and the bottom of the top 1 percent’s respective annual gross income levels, those being $25,000 for the “poor” and $250,000 […]
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Poor figures, poor logic
The first problem is the use of a national figure for poverty. There is no national poverty level. Poverty in New England is a far cry from poverty in Oklahoma; dollars in these two parts of the nation are not equal. Poverty incomes in New York are middle-income in Oklahoma, and so on. Another statistical […]
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How ’bout more guns?
Gun control is blaming weapons for bad things that happen. So enough already. Let’s quit trying to control guns and start controlling people by using compulsory mental health care and limits on movies and video games, because the Second Amendment trumps all others. How do we handle the bad apples we miss? More guns/weapons/arms (mutually-assured […]
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Contraception and population
Within the past 100 years, the world population has grown by approximately 5 billion people. I realize the Bible says to be fruitful. However, the Bible didn’t account for 7 billion people with extended life expectancies thanks to the kind of medicine that Pedulla practices. It stands to reason that if mankind did not make […]
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Don’t bet on it
However, if more money is needed, the solution is easy. The gaming venues in our state annually send nearly $200 million in direct tax revenues to the Capitol for legislators to spend. Most men and women serving in that hallowed and falling-down building are Republicans, members of the same party that voted almost unanimously against […]
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Marriage equality is up for grabs
The Supreme Court justices (in that very same Supreme Court building) are presently considering California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage. They are also considering the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Interestingly, attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies jointly filed the federal lawsuit that brought […]
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Willful ignorance of science
Modern abiogenesis hypotheses are much more complex. Regardless, evolution itself has nothing to say on the subject of abiogenesis. It is, to put it simply, the gradual change of organisms over time, not the theory of how those organ isms came to being. Creationists like yourself would understand these important distinctions if their willful ignorance […]
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McClendon’s genius
I’ve had the good fortune to know both men, who, by any measure, are two of the most visionary entrepreneurs responsible for much of Oklahoma City’s renaissance. Chesapeake is America’s second-largest natural gas producer. Early on, McClendon and Ward realized the promise of unlocking huge deposits of natural gas by fracking. In replacing McClendon, Chesapeake […]