Far Too Many Little Fiefdoms
We don’t tap Morse code into telegraphs to communicate, nor commute two days to the county seat in prairie schooners, to file assorted land claims, license applications, legal documents or court papers. This is the Internet and IPhone era, where such procedures can, should and often are done online, in seconds, with equal speed and effectiveness, from anywhere in the state or in this nation.
Read more →Nanny University of Oklahoma
OU has decided to clamp yet another yoke on its athletes’ freedoms by dictating what they can and cannot say on sites such as MySpace, Facebook and BLOGs. I guess the ideal of the university as a place where one engages in free thought, free speech, free association, and welcomes diversity of viewpoints, is a [...]
Read more →Squall Line, Fire and Hawks of Hennessey
Hennessey and Okeene OK areas 18 Apr 9 SHORT: Briefly observed outflow dominant squall line W of Hennessey after pre-linear discrete storm failed. Watched controlled burn lose control twice, surrounded by a hundred Swainson’s hawks. LONG: I had a day shift, so my ability to observe storms realistically was limited to the main body of [...]
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