CFN’s scribes don’t want to be caught with our pants down, but the ongoing back-and-forth between Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and the Lingerie Football League chairman continued after press time last week. The breaking news went right down to the underwire, sports fans, with Chairman Mitchell Mortaza firing the final saucy salvo. After reportedly […]
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Move over, Max
Did you know there is an Oklahoma state fossil? Apparently in 2000, the state Legislature crowned Saurophaganax maximus ” the “greatest predator of earth’s history” ” as our honorary archaic emblem. Was this measure swiftly followed by a resolution decrying Darwin Week at the University of Oklahoma? Well Max, your time in the limelight might […]
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Rev. Blair reveals range, depth of knowledge
The Rev. Paul Blair’s exceptional and excellente retort (“Counterpoint: Precedents justify SQ 755,” Nov. 17, Gazette) reveals a range and depth of knowledge of Islam, Muhammad and the attached themes like few such articles published to date ” in the Gazette or elsewhere. His summary would earn kudos from the premiere expert on the subject, […]
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Sparrow lanes’
Once again, Oklahoma City has gotten close, but not close enough. According to Clifton Adcock’s Nov. 10 “‘Sharrow’ the road” article in the Oklahoma Gazette, “sharrow lanes” were so named because of the combination of “share” and “arrow.” More accurately, they should be named “sparrow lanes.” That’s a combination of “splat” and “arrow.” With the […]
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Pooling resources
In the state’s current economic climate, governmental entities and not-for-profit agencies must think creatively to fund new capital-building projects and provide new services to their respective patrons, stretching tax dollars and operating funds further than ever before. An innovative partnership between three such organizations ” the city of Edmond, the YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City […]
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Trailblazer
If there’s one thing Oklahoma politicians tell us we should be proud of as a state, it’s our innovation. When life hands us lemons, we squeeze lemon juice in life’s eyes until it gives us something better, preferably something involving football and/or deep-fried. Now, the state is putting its best foot forward and blazing new […]
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Planting a Seed
The Seeds of Hope fundraiser helps provide mentoring to metro students. Seeds of Hope 6:30 p.m. tuesday national cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1700 N.E. 63rd www.whizkidsok.org $100 Collins Tuohy, the adoptive sister of “The Blind Side”‘s subject Michael Oher, will be the featured speaker at Tuesday’s annual Seeds of Hope fundraiser to provide literacy, […]
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Offering ‘an alternative’
I just re-read Lauren Zuniga’s excellent “Poem to progressives plotting mass exodus” (Letters, Nov. 17, Gazette) for the fifth or sixth time. I cried the first few times I read it. Zuniga eloquently expressed the frustration and anger I am feeling and offered an alternative for those of us who are so depressed about the […]
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Vertigo Resurrected: Shoot
Nice shot, “Shoot”! For the first in a new line of super-sized anthologies under the “Vertigo Resurrected” banner, Vertigo reaches back to the late 1990s and early 2000s with “Shoot,” so named for its lead story, a never-before-published tale of senseless schoolyard homicides. Written by Warren Ellis and featuring John Constantine, Hellblazer, it’s no wonder […]
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The Expendables
Your Blu-Ray player can’t get any manlier than when it’s spinning “The Expendables.” Sylvester Stallone’s action extravaganza is the manliest man’s man movie ever made for mankind. Your muscles expand just from watching. It doesn’t have a brain in its well-oiled body, but who needs smarts when your pores are exuding this much fun? When […]