In accordance with journalism’s “Man Bites Dog” rule, Oklahoma has been making national headlines recently for — get this — actually letting people out of prison. First, as reported on Nov. 4 by CNN, the state released more than 460 nonviolent inmates before their original sentences were completed in the largest single-day mass commutation in […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Damonic justice
In June, sightings of actor Matt Damon (EuroTrip, Mystic Pizza) temporarily exceeded sightings of Bigfoot in Oklahoma, and for good reason: Damon is apparently filming a movie here. According to Variety, Stillwater, written and directed by Oscar winner Tom McCarthy, will star Damon as an “American oil-rig rough neck from Oklahoma … who travels to […]