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It’s that time again. The yearly rankings are coming at you right and left. Best movies, best albums, best “Call Me Maybe” YouTube clip featuring dancing corgis.

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Wayne Coyne seems to be excited about the upcoming release of Freak Night, a video of The Flaming Lips’ Oct. 26 show at the Zoo Amphitheatre: “Comes out next week!! Halloween for Christmas!!” he tweeted on Dec. 12.

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State Rep. Mark McCullough, R-Sapulpa, evidently trying to merge reality with the action movie playing in his head, had a flash of insight on the massacre at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.

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In a move seemingly plucked straight out of Joseph Heller’s classic novel, Catch- 22, Oklahoma State University officials decided the best way to protect victims of sexual assault was to not tell police about those incidents of sexual assault.

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Recording artist Keri Hilson, known for her sexiness and power collaborations (Nelly, R. Kelly and Kanye West), appears to be hot ’n’ heavy these days with Serge Ibaka, OKC Thunder’s power forward. A few weeks ago, Hilson celebrated her birthday in Bricktown after the Thunder’s trouncing of the Los Angeles Lakers at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.

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Okie country cutie Carrie Underwood is guilty of many things: having a powerful singing voice, being hot, winning Grammys, being hot, lending legitimacy to American Idol, being hot, marrying a hockey player, being hot and being hot.

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Sometimes, your back hurts. Maybe you threw it out playing Frisbee golf, or maybe you sat on an uncomfortable old sofa watching a Firefly marathon. How it happened isn’t important. Your back hurts and you need some help, and it’s not like doctors just hand out muscle relaxants anymore.

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Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett will need to clear some room on a bookshelf for an award celebrating something that hasn’t happened yet, sorta.

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Kobe Bryant is not known for his graciousness. Especially not toward excellent young players who repeatedly school him on the court, sometimes in his own house.

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How many make-believe cops can you name off the bat? Let’s see … there’s Sgt. Joe Friday, Dirty Harry, Axel Foley … oh, and John Doak. If the name of Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner doesn’t immediately strike fear among the criminal kind, it’s certainly not for lack of trying. Doak’s agency has bolstered its anti-fraud unit by spending more than $180,000 on police cars, pump-action shotguns, bulletproof vests and the like.

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That scream you heard carry across the metro at 8:48 a.m. Dec. 10 was untold thousands of tween girls reacting to Chesapeake Energy Arena’s announcement that Justin Bieber had scheduled a local stop for his “Believe” world tour, for July 2, 2013.

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If there’s one thing Oklahoma politicians know, it’s that no one appreciates a moocher. Unless that moocher is a corporation.

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The spanking Mitt Romney took in the presidential election might have the GOP thinking it’s time for a new quarterback — perhaps a real, honest-to-goodness QB. And so it is that J.C. Watts, the former Oklahoma congressman and University of Oklahoma Sooners quarterback, says he is being encouraged to run for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.

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Usually, when OKC makes it on national TV, local boosters howl about it from the rooftops.

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Would you rather go to jail or church?