Happy Monday, you pretty little TLO readers! I hope you each had a wonderful time at Sunday service yesterday morning. If there is one thing I know about those who read TLO, it’s that every...
A common characteristic of the glossy, perfume sample-laden drug store magazines that line the shelves of checkout are the recurring Lifestyle guides that inform readers of the latest fashion, the...
Forget about social security uncertainties, that weird mole on the top of grandma’s left ear, or whatever Fox News wants to convince us is destroying the fabric of America. There is a greater...
What’s up, TLO readers? It’s me. Marisa. I’m coming out of retirement while Patrick is at home learning to tell terrible puns while fiddling with the lawnmower on the back porch...
Many times, when my Caucasian amigos go for a night out at the movies with me, I tend to slightly embarrass them by going full Latino and pulling out a spare crying baby about 15 minutes into the...
Three or four weeks ago, Representative John Bennett, the Islamophobic state rep who is not seeking re-election so he can spend more time shooting guns with is family, had a solution for the recent...
So… the Great Oklahoma Teachers Walkout of 2018 is over? I guess if you believe the Oklahoma Education Association it is. With OEA President Alicia Priest claiming a “victory,” teachers have...
Recently, while considering whether to engage in a Facebook comment war about the teacher walkout with my extended family members, I came across an article on Psychology Today that outlined 6 helpful...
We knew this teacher’s walkout felt a bit too genuine and inspirational. Yesterday afternoon, State Rep John Enns confirmed what wacko authoritarian conspiracy theorists have long feared –...
The commute is the sort of thing that can break a person. I’ve personally watched it destroy my father until his only condition for a job was “close.” We called it “whiteline...
Sometimes hard work doesn’t pay off as much as we’d hope. With minimum wage being set at $7.25 per hour in our great state, it’s hard to get by without 93% of your dietary intake consisting of...
Recently, I discovered my editorial doppelganger at The Oklahoman. So what if contributor Richard Hall has a beard and probably fewer anxiety symptoms than yours truly. We are similar in that we both...
Over the past week, school districts from all over Oklahoma have been calling emergency meetings with parents to not only put them on notice about the possibility of an upcoming teacher’s strike...
Late last week, Oklahoma state employees announced that they would soon be joining teachers in a walkout, citing low pay and general ass-hattery by lawmakers as their reasons for walking out...
When we think of schools in Oklahoma, what often comes to mind are education cuts that lead to four-day school weeks and low teacher pay. What can be a worse set of associations to make? Well...
Last week, an Oklahoma County Sheriff’s deputy received a cold call from a scammer pretending to be an IRS agent. The deputy in the video linked here filmed his phone call to show average...
The flu epidemic in Oklahoma has reached an all-time high, with over 150 people dead from the dreaded sickness and an astonishing 3,400 plus hospitalized as of September 2017. It’s a pair of...
