The Gadfly On The Wall

Sunday Musings: The Oklahoman's morning story, "Who's Watching Your Children?" is pretty chilling. If you've not read this Nolan Clay/Randy Ellis/Ryan McNeill piece about former criminals granted waivers by the Department of Human Services to work or live in day care centers, I recommend you do so.

Family Ties: Here's a photo of the 2007 McCarville Family reunion. Talk about a big tent....

The Blogosphere: Oklahoma blogs continue to grow in number and diversity. Seems there are a couple of new ones every day...more than I can keep up with, but more evidence that the "new media" has more and more influence on what we read and how fast we read it. Most of the new blogs are opinion-based; that is, they are the blogger's opinion, sometimes including a bit of "news" that may or may not be accurate. And then there are the almost-total-news blogs and then there are the media sites with the traditional news approach. My daily reading list (links to which can be found on the right side of this page) includes some of each kind and they all share one thing in common: They regularly post new material. (Some blogs and news sites go days without new material). The Oklahoman and the Tulsa World are on my list of traditional news sites, as are KSWO-TV in Lawton and KTOK-AM 1000 in Oklahoma City. Blogs of opinion and sometimes-news on my list are BatesLine, Ron Black, Mark Shannon, and Red Stater, and the mostly-news Oklahoma Political News Service. I find interesting material at two news sites that cover the South and the Nation; Southern Political Report and The Hill. Both cover their spheres in fine fashion. Then there are (in my case), the blogs-that-are-likely-to-tick-you-off. Rude-and-crude Okie Funk tops this list of those of liberal thought who never learned the word "civility" as they grew up. (The same, I add, can be said of some conservative-thought blogs.)

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