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Your Thursday Oklahoma

Your Thursday Oklahoma

Courtesy of Esquire's Charles P. Pierce With Help From Yours Truly

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Big damn thanks as always to good friend Charles P. Pierce of Esquire for the shoutout and for reminding us, if such reminders were necessary, that Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, is the rare breed of someone who at all times is incompetent, mendacious, inefficient, and sanctimonious. He’s also very, very dangerous.

And we conclude, as is our custom, in the great state of Oklahoma, whence Blog Official Rotgut Diviner Friedman of the plains brings us the further adventures of Ryan Walters, the worst thing to happen to public education since the invention of meatloaf. From Oklahomas Voice:

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