On Twitter, there is a phenomenon called “the ratio,” and depending on the balance of that ratio, any given tweet can be mathematically judged as an overwhelming success or a crashing failure. For example, if rapper Meek Mill tweets that he is “taking over” BET on the weekend of the BET Awards and he gets […]
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Chicken-Fried News: No GOPride
The Oklahoma Republican Party hasn’t been an ally to the state’s LGBTQ+ community over the years, which was again highlighted in the most recent session as the GOP-controlled Legislature put a law into effect allowing faith-based adoption agencies to deny prospective parents based on their religious beliefs. Oklahoma County Republicans inquired about space in the […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Ghosts busted?
An Oklahoma City-based rapper is wondering whether hip-hop megastars Kanye West and Kid Cudi sampled — or perhaps plagiarized — one of his own songs on their new and incredibly popular collaborative album Kids See Ghosts. And while the claim sounds audacious, he actually makes a pretty compelling case for it. In a guest editorial […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Mor chik’n
Sometimes, the Chicken-Fried News staff desperately tries to keep Environmental “Protection” Agency administrator Scott Pruitt out of its pages. After all, we want to be fair to everyone from this fair state that manages to reset Oklahoma’s “number of days without a national embarrassment” counter. But Pruitt is, as U.S. Sen. John “Not That One” […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Murray bills
There comes a time in every young man’s life when he faces a familiar choice: become a millionaire first-round baseball prospect or play quarterback for one of college football’s most storied programs. Oh, we neglected to mention that by “every young man,” what we really mean is, “pretty much only Kyler Murray.” Earlier this month, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Crossing boundaries
Oklahoma’s best teachers are heading to Texas, and that’s a real problem. But apparently the Sooner State’s most notorious streakers are headed south of the Red River, too. Readers might not know the name Steven Dale Brazeal, but maybe they would recognize the rear end of the 56-year-old lifetime Oklahoma sex offender. Local news stories […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Take the shot
When people talk about measles, it’s usually in the past tense, as in “Aren’t you glad we don’t have to deal with yaws, rubella, smallpox and the measles anymore? Pass the avocado toast and don’t Bogart the mimosa pitcher!” But our carefree existence of Sunday Fun Days and discussing the new season of The Bachelorette […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Job fulfillment?
All of the tributes at the altar of the free market paid off last week when Oklahoma City officials announced that online retail giant Amazon will be building a 640,000-square-foot fulfillment center in south Oklahoma City. Amazon plans to employ about 1,750 people at the center, which is the first cog in the transportation process […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Purple suit
Stressed-out social media users regularly muse over which musicians they would resurrect if that were possible outside of a passion play. When a Russian journalist who was allegedly shot and killed in Kiev, Ukraine, last month showed up alive at a press conference on May 30, one Twitter user loudly wrote, “DO DAVID BOWIE NEXT.” […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Pack mentality
The latest weird and wild news from Oklahoma that achieved national headlines is the tragic story of an Ardmore woman killed in an attack from seven short-legged dachshund-mix dogs. Tracy Garcia, 52, died May 10 after her neighbor’s dogs mauled her outside her home, according to KXII. The story appeared on both the Yahoo! and […]