It's Durant vs. McCarville On The Lost Ogle

The Thunder's Kevin Durant has a huge lead over Mike McCarville in today's voting in The Lost Ogle's 2nd Annual Celebrity Tournament, a mock March Madness event. McCarville said he's not surprised Durant is ahead of him and added he's too proud to beg for votes: "However, I have been known to reward my friends," he added. Go to http://www.thelostogle.com/ to cast your vote.

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An Obscure Local Blog No More: The Rise Of The (Quite Funny) Lost Ogle

Months ago, your editor described The Lost Ogle as "an obscure local blog."

No longer. This social commentary/humor site has had more non-blog press in recent months than all the other Oklahoma-based blogs put together. It's been featured in the Oklahoma Gazette and Oklahoma Magazine ("75 Great Oklahoma Websites") and discussed on other blogs.

Written by a trio of irreverent (but relevant) young men who find humor almost everywhere, and give it a twist the keeps me returning to it, The Lost Ogle is an exercise in commentary that's addictive.

For example: Recently, I noticed a local news anchor casting his eyes at his female co-anchor in a certain way and thought to myself, "That rascal." The Lost Ogle went way beyond that, posting a video of said anchor and his eyes and where they look during a newscast.

TLO is not a political blog; it has nothing to do with government. It is, however, fun to read and for a welcome change of pace from all things political and governmental, it's refreshing. ~ Mike McCarville

Check it out at http://www.thelostogle.com/.

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Comic Relief In The Dog Days Of Summer

Give it up for the gang at The Lost Ogle. They've come up with some comic relief in the dog days of summer that has nothing to do with politics or government: "The Worst of OKC." (Well, there is a "Worst Politician" category.)

The lively blog, panned here in the past for picking up an untrue story from another blog, contains social commentary and irreverent (and often entertaining) posts on just about everything.

"The Worst" is a takeoff on "The Best" lists that appear in several publications.

Check out the list at http://www.thelostogle.com/2008/07/07/the-worst-of-okc/.

Graphic from The Lost Ogle.

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No Longer Obscure

The Oklahoma Gazette features The Lost Ogle, a local social blog once referred to here as "an obscure local blog," in a current cover story.

The liberal OG isn't The New York Times, but it has wide readership and thus, The Lost Ogle is no longer so obscure.

More importantly for TLO, the popular blog Dustbury has taken note of its existence along with a few content suggestions.

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Garbage In, Garbage Out Part II: No Apologies To Sally Kern's Son From Gay, Liberal Bloggers For False Claims

Gay and liberal bloggers who participated last week in untrue, savage attacks on the son of Rep. Sally Kern have yet to apologize to him despite his own assertion he's not gay and proof that a 1989 court document does not involve him.

In fact, The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has continued the attack, with some posters ridiculing Jesse Kern's assertion he's not gay and belittling posters who try to set the record straight. The PerezHilton blog, a haven for liberal thought laced with obscenities, hasn't apologized either. Nor has the Democrats of Oklahoma Community Forum, which first made the erroneous assertion, or The Lost Ogle, an obscure local social blog that picked the "story" up from the PerezHilton blog and seems to consider the attack on Jesse Kern as nothing of concern. The Democrats of Oklahoma Community Forum did, at least, acknowledge the person named in the 1989 document is another Jesse Kern and not Sally Kern's son.

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Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Lost Ogle Gets It Wrong

Rep. Sally Kern's remarks about homosexuals have spurred numerous attacks on her, including the false accusation that she has a gay son and today, a local blog titled "The Lost Ogle" perpetuates the lie by quoting an out-of-state blog that specializes in publishing garbage.

The assertion that Kern has a gay son surfaced in Oklahoma on the Democrats of Oklahoma Community Forum, http://www.demookie,com/, last week, when posters claimed a court document from Shawnee proved it and attempted to portray Kern as a hypocrite. The 19-year-old document, however, concerns a man who was an adult at the time and not Kern's son, who was not yet even a teenager in 1989, a check of the record (from the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network) shows.

To DemoOkie's credit, administrator Tim Reese finally checked into the assertion (as did TMRO and found it to be untrue) and essentially ended the string by reporting, "I think the OSCN.com link is a different one. I think Sally's son is Jessa A Kern , 31 from Shawnee. The OSCN Link is for a different Jesse Jacob Kern...." To Reese's discredit, he's the one who started the string in the first place by posting the assertion without checking it out.

In other words, a careless assumption that the record involved Kern's son, without determining it to be true, has resulted in a black eye not for Kern but for those who attack her and her family. ~ Mike McCarville

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