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Funny farm

That’s when Oklahoma’s senior senator decided to clarify the issue of gays in the military by talking about bestiality. According to the Tulsa World, Inhofe assured the audience that lifting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy did not, in fact, legalize bestiality in the military — just in case you were wondering. Riding the […]

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Enterprising methods

The pressing question is: How could one spend six hours in the back of a store mixing “ingredients” before employees thought to investigate her odd behavior? Oh, wait — we’re talking about a Walmart. Never mind. According to authorities, Halfmoon couldn’t afford to purchase the necessary chemicals, so she improvised. With a previous drug record […]

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Enterprising methods

The pressing question is: How could one spend six hours in the back of a store mixing “ingredients” before employees thought to investigate her odd behavior? Oh, wait — we’re talking about a Walmart. Never mind. According to authorities, Halfmoon couldn’t afford to purchase the necessary chemicals, so she improvised. With a previous drug record […]

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Chrome extension

It’s not multiple personality disorder, exactly. Many of the area’s finest musicians, after all, flit between multiple projects, playing a festival here, helping on a record there. Local pop musician Steven Battles is familiar with the phenomenon, having backed Norman acts like The Nghiems and Jacob Abello. When Battles lends a hand to electro-pop act […]

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Chrome extension

It’s not multiple personality disorder, exactly. Many of the area’s finest musicians, after all, flit between multiple projects, playing a festival here, helping on a record there. Local pop musician Steven Battles is familiar with the phenomenon, having backed Norman acts like The Nghiems and Jacob Abello. When Battles lends a hand to electro-pop act […]

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Jacket required

With influences as far ranging as Neil Young to Pink Floyd, you could call My Morning Jacket many things. Its members hope “jam band” isn’t among them. “Yeah, there’s a bit of a freedom we have when we play together, and we aren’t rigid in how we play the songs … but I don’t understand […]

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Jacket required

With influences as far ranging as Neil Young to Pink Floyd, you could call My Morning Jacket many things. Its members hope “jam band” isn’t among them. “Yeah, there’s a bit of a freedom we have when we play together, and we aren’t rigid in how we play the songs … but I don’t understand […]

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Infantile argument

Dan Skerbitz, co-founder and director of Personhood Oklahoma, is seeking 150,000 signatures for an initiative petition so Oklahomans can vote to amend the constitution to state that life begins at fertilization. He may be facing an uphill battle, however; in Colorado and Mississippi, similar measures were blocked, like sperm by a heavy-duty diaphragm. Skerbitz told […]

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Infantile argument

Dan Skerbitz, co-founder and director of Personhood Oklahoma, is seeking 150,000 signatures for an initiative petition so Oklahomans can vote to amend the constitution to state that life begins at fertilization. He may be facing an uphill battle, however; in Colorado and Mississippi, similar measures were blocked, like sperm by a heavy-duty diaphragm. Skerbitz told […]

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Bah, humbug!

Last year, his boycott of Tulsa’s Holiday Parade of Lights made national headlines, when Inhofe said, “Until the parade is again named the Christmas Parade of Lights, I will not participate.” It’s parade time again: Will Inhofe take a lesson from Ebenezer Scrooge and redeem last year’s sins by keeping Christmas alive in his own […]

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