Sunday's Blog

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Once again the Heisman Trophy voters have gone against their stated aim to give the award to the most dominant player in college football.

Ndamukong Suh of Nebraska, a defensive lineman, should have won the award.  Yes, he will win most every defensive award out there but the Heisman voters missed the perfect opportunity to show that only quarterbacks and running backs are worthy of the award.

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I've had enough of Tiger Woods.  I don't care how many women he had affairs with or what he or his wife are doing about the whole mess.  It's time for the media to back off and give them some time to sort it all out.

Like most of these types of stories, the media runs them into the ground.

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Here in Oklahoma we're getting ready for the state legislature to begin it's magic in 2010.

And like every year, these champions of liberty, these wise sages of the plains, are once again going to focus on the same old problems: workers' compensation reform and tort reform.

After all these years of legislators making these issues "top priority" it would seem that one legislative session would finally get the problems fixed.

I'd be much happier if the legislature would focus on more important topics.  In no particular order they are:

Education - why do we still have over 500 school districts (a couple of which didn't graduate seniors last year); why do we spend more on administration than classrooms: where is all that extra money from the lottery really going.

It's also time for the Governor and the Legislature to grow some big brass ones and reform Oklahoma's education system so that it actually educates kids instead of teaching them how to take a standardized test.

Health: Oklahoma is in the top five when it comes to being the most unhealthy state.  It's time for the legislature to get tough on things it can control.

Poverty - 20% of Oklahoma's population goes hungry.  Why? 

The Department of Human Services - for an organization that is supposed to protect children, why do so many children continue to be harmed and killed while under DHS supervision?  It's time for the Governor and the Legislature to grow a pair and clean out this rat's nest of secrecy and obvious inability to do its job.

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