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Gone and forgotten (or not)

If you knew how quickly people would forget you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but God. -- John Chrysostom I shared that memeified quote on FB recently, and it spawned a few other thoughts. In central Europe, at least, you only rent...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 2, 2022 8:15 AM

The Mystery of the Muskogee Senator's Missing Name

Jamison Faught has caught the Muskogee Phoenix newspaper in an interesting omission. It's in an Associated Press story (originating in the Oklahoman) on two Democratic Oklahoma state senators, Earl Garrison and Kenneth Corn, intervening on behalf of a Muskogee highway contractor named Craig Glover. Glover had been rejected by the...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 30, 2009 8:42 PM

The Muskogee Maverick: John Tyler Hammons

In a 5 min. interview with BatesLine, Muskogee Mayor John Tyler Hammons, a delegate to the Republican National Convention and at 19 years, 364 days old America's youngest mayor, talks about trying to meet Rudy Giuliani, how he became interested in politics, the challenges of serving as mayor, and...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 3, 2008 7:11 PM