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Showing posts with label Oklahoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oklahoma. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

'Can’t Take the Home Out of Oklahoma': A Movie Review of Twisters

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I grew up in Tornado Alley in western Oklahoma. This was before the invention of cell phones or the Internet, and people in my small town we...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Why does Oklahoma have 8630 licensed marijuana growers and only 471 dairy farms?

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  When I was in college, it was a felony to possess marijuana in any amount. If the cops caught you with it, you could go to the state penit...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

College life in the 1960s: College kids try to kill themselves in a 1961 Chrysler Imperial--but botch the job

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I ain't hurtin' nobody.  I ain't hurtin' no one. John  Prine I enrolled at Oklahoma State University in 1966, just a...
Friday, August 16, 2019

College life in the 1960s: Seven idiots in a 1960 Chrysler Imperial

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I ain't hurtin' nobody.  I ain't hurtin' no one. John Prine I enrolled at Oklahoma State University in 1966, ju...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Suicides and a Jail Death in Anadarko, Oklahoma: Bitter, Angry and Frightened, Oklahomans will not vote for Hillary

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Last January, the Washington Post reported on a spate of suicides in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Four people committed suicide over a period of less...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Medieval America: Victor David Hanson correctly diagnoses the collapse of American liberal democracy

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It is difficult to convey a brilliant insight in less than 2,000 words, but Victor David Hanson has done it. In a brief essay published las...