Annals of science America’s foremost advocate for frontal lobotomies as “treatment” for mental disorder, the late Dr. Walter Freeman, performed an estimated 3,500 lobotomies during the 1940s and 1950s before opposition finally solidified against him, according to a December 2013 investigation by The Wall Street Journal. At the peak of his influence, he was so […]
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Annals of science America’s foremost advocate for frontal lobotomies as “treatment” for mental disorder, the late Dr. Walter Freeman, performed an estimated 3,500 lobotomies during the 1940s and 1950s before opposition finally solidified against him, according to a December 2013 investigation by The Wall Street Journal. At the peak of his influence, he was so […]
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Cultural diversity — “For Japanese boys, the train driver sits alongside footballer, doctor and policeman as a dream job,” according to a September Agence France-Presse dispatch, and consequently, the system for the Tokyo metro area (covering 35 million people) runs with the “precision of a finely crafted Swiss watch,” where delays, even for as long […]
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Haunting 101
Built on 111,000 acres in 1879 by Col. George W. Miller, the 101 Ranch once hosted one heckuva wild west show that rivaled Buffalo Bill’s. According to author Matthew Mayo, after Miller died in 1903, his three sons took over the sprawling operation, only to see tragedy after tragedy follow. First, in 1927, Joe Miller, […]
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Blade battle in Baja Oklahoma!
The State Fair of Texas doesn’t start for pert near two months, but the OU-Texas buildup is already reaching a fever pitch. Did another Texas fan nearly castrate another male member of the Sooner Nation in the 405, resulting in stitched cajones? Well, not that kind of sad sack story at Henry Hudson’s Pub, but […]
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Buy now!
That optimism is higher than residents of other countries, according to the Genworth International Mortgage Trends Report. Among the respondents’ reported obstacles to purchasing a home were: —the local economic outlook; —concerns about property affordability; and —worries about future unemployment. However, these economic concerns have not translated into excessive mortgage stress among U.S. home buyers. […]
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Punch drunk
Look, Chicken-Fried News realizes that bachelor parties can get pretty wild, but unless you’re starring in a sorta needless sequel, there’s no need for the night to end in jail. We’re guessing one 22-year-old guy might agree with us. So here’s what happened. A couple of weekends ago, a group was out for a bachelor […]
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State park showdown
The man, Sandlin Matthews Smith, 46, of St. Johns County, Fla., allegedly was involved in setting off a pipe bomb at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida in May 2010, and had been tracked to northwest Oklahoma by the FBI. No one was hurt in the blast. According to The Associated Press, Smith had pulled […]
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Cannabis crackdown
Authored by Rep. Sue Tibbs, R-Tulsa, the measure extends the same harsh penalties currently imposed on cannabis cultivators to the industrious individuals who make hashish, the compressed resin excreted by marijuana buds. According to the Tulsa World, there has not been a surge in hashish manufacturing, yet a spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics […]
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Massive monstercicles of doom!
Last week, when the weather outside was just a wee bit frosty, a broken pipe created more than a dozen massive icicles that formed precariously on a bridge that spans Interstate 235, according to KOCO-TV. How was it hanging? Try some more than a foot in diameter. A foot! Those aren’t icicles, those are massive […]