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Oklahoma’s first openly transgender candidate will face Kern in fall election

OKLAHOMA CITY — A controversial lawmaker known for her comments against homosexuality likely will face the state’s first-known transgender candidate in this fall’s elections.

Oklahoma City attorney Brittany Novotny, a Democrat,

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Editor’s note: From 2002 to 2006, Brian Byrne delivered the daily weather report on KWGS, the University of Tulsa’s public radio station. His deadpan delivery earned him a cult following of listeners who tuned in, at times, simply to hear Byrne say something about the weather overhead.

I don’t remember…

This story from the Oklahoman wins the award for Best Headline and generalized Best Thing That’s Happened Recently.

Among other subtly great things about it is the distinction between the bomb squad determining the package’s contents and determining it was not dangerous.

“… aaah, roger, that’s right. Cookies.”

“Yeah, you…

Of course the Oklahoma Tea Party should form a militia! Of course they should. This is a capital idea.

It’s been delightful to see how this story has played out since last Monday, when it first ran. Apparently it raised enough eyebrows that at least one key figure in the…

It’s not that I was overtaken with surprise when I heard about Oklahoma State Senator Steve Russell’s thinly veiled assault on the prosecution of GLBT hate crimes. Russell presents the bill as a states’ rights measure, and he can’t even do that without sounding like an Alabama sheriff circa 1955:…