As I read, however, I was distracted by two pictures: one of a young girl dressed provocatively with her face cropped out, and another being a cartoon of a girl upside-down, poledancing. The images belonged to the Coyote Ugly Saloon and Miss Pole Dance Oklahoma 2013 ads adjacent to the article. Variety Care is fighting […]
Letters to the Editor
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Crossing a line
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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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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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 […]
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Real must-see TV
If only there were a TV network not driven by profits, a network with the goal to make us more knowledgeable and more responsible citizens. A network that chooses to present scientifically based programs, shows that inspire, educate and entertain. A network that delivers the news with honesty and integrity. If only there were such […]
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Embryonic
Recent research has clarified how emergency contraceptives, or ECs, work. Seldom suppressing egg release, ECs are often “embryocidal,” as European medical authorities stated in 2009, destroying life before implantation. Game-changing recent studies precisely revealed how the most popular ECs work. Chilean researchers attempted to definitively show Plan B chiefly suppresses ovulation without embryocidal effects and […]