Government Blogging aka Humor?

Almost seems like an oxymoron, doesn’t it?  Apparently, the gov’t has caught on to the esteemed ranks of blogging. Yesterday’s  Slate had an article about TSA’s blog. Check the article out at http://www.slate.com/id/2215822/. Oh, and the USDA National Agriculture Library blog: Infofarm is awesome. Seriously. The best government blogs actually sound like blogs, too. InfoFarm, the Department of [...]

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Some Humor to Stimulate the Brain

When we’re not blogging or seriously contemplating the human condition and all aspects of intergenerational poverty in America, we on occasion take a moment to chuckle. Below is a brief correspondence I had with Micah over email today. It specifically highlights a news story that splashed Tulsa on the national news today. I will leave names [...]

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The Power of Laughter

Today I attended Day 2 of the Third Annual Prevention Health Conference, organized by our good friends over at the Tulsa Health Department.  The topics were interesting, but fairly standard for such a conference.  Except for one – the lunch speaker, Dr. Brad Neider of Devner, gave a talk called “Finding Humor.”  Now I’ll admit, [...]

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