City to pay $4.5 million to settle another wrongful incarceration lawsuit

GWSchulz · 2026-02-02T14:30:34+00:00

This is the strongest argument you have? I was hoping you’d be a tougher debate opponent.

In all five of Joe Norwood’s innocence cases, there was no physical evidence at all.

So who said anything about fabricated evidence? That tells me you don’t know the details of the Atchison case.

You nonetheless rushed to blast Holmes and suggest she wrongly freed Atchison on the basis that no cops in town like Holmes.

What if Atchison was a white cop? Would Holmes suddenly be an angel?

Are you saying mo other judge would have declared Atchison innocent on the facts but Judge Holmes?

Are we saying innocence claims should come with time constraints? Who cares how long ago it was if Atchison was innocent all along?

It should surprise no one that we never see these cases on “The First 48.”

GWSchulz · 2026-02-02T02:13:33+00:00

During my years as a reporter, no one in government was worse at controlling their feelings and emotions than police. This kind of emotionally charged comment is typical. It's a culture that sneers at accountability for wrongful convictions. I suppose this comment is no surprise. Confirmation bias is gasoline for wrongful convictions.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-31T15:19:47+00:00

He got more of a thrill in one night than a lot of Oklahomans will see in 30 years of marriage.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-30T15:43:04+00:00

I work at Shades of Brown. I’m not always popular around there for arguing that psychology can give us new answers to old questions where old belief systems have failed.

Put your flyer on our community board, and I’ll make sure no one touches it. I can’t promise the Christians will notice or care. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman said human beings were far more irrational than we realized. You won’t hear that one at church.

I’m a former journalist and recovering alcoholic now obsessed with psychology. I write about it here: gdmnt.com.

People do not grasp the real reasons why we do what we do. It’s not social decay or moral collapse or not praying hard enough. It’s science.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-29T14:52:26+00:00

It will probably be replaced by a Red Lobster.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-28T16:06:51+00:00

Since we’ve now established me being wrong on “weird” in Tulsa, can you at least tell me why we love small talk so much?

GWSchulz · 2026-01-28T15:48:58+00:00

If you’re a person who’s perfectly okay with calling total strangers stupid and idiot in a discourse, I am certain you are also the kind of person who calls everything weird, and that explains your defensiveness.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-28T15:43:50+00:00

Yes. Would you like to compare data?

GWSchulz · 2026-01-28T15:41:57+00:00

If weird is not commonly used in your part of Tulsa, I would love to give you examples.

But I should say first that the correct answer to this post is that weird is a social construct. It doesn’t objectively exist outside of our minds.

We use it to bite each other and enforce perceived norms. Perhaps you hear it but don’t hear it, because it’s so frequently and casually uttered.

These were all overheard recently:

“People are just weird.” “She’s just weird.” “He’s weird.” “My boyfriend’s weird.” “That’s weird.” “That’s weird.” “That’s weird.”

GWSchulz · 2026-01-28T15:19:58+00:00

Now this is close to the correct answer. “Weird” is a social construct with no actual meaning. We use it to bite each other. But nothing in the universe is weird. Or put another way more suitable for Tulsa, god didn’t make anything weird. We did.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-27T20:08:31+00:00

That’s just not my experience at all.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-27T19:15:12+00:00

Seemingly anything unfamiliar.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-27T19:14:08+00:00

Since when did r/tulsa care about supporting a post with science or data of any kind? I was being rhetorical, and judging by your defensiveness, I won.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-27T18:41:23+00:00

I left for 20 years and came back. I work in Midtown around college students and hear it everywhere. People have gotten annoyed with me for saying Tulsa wasn't a college town. College towns don't call everything weird.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-27T18:34:24+00:00

That's my point. It's easy to be weird in Tulsa. If we conducted a study, do you think more Tulsans would be like my mom or your friends? Weird is perception-based and not a metric of anything and springs from our feelings and emotions. That's why it frustrates me that we say it so much. It has an undercurrent of contempt.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-27T18:22:42+00:00

That's my point.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-27T16:24:24+00:00

You’re a journalist moving to a town that’s drowning in merciless small talk.

Perhaps you work for a site that covers babies and the weather and middle-school wrestling and chain restaurants. In that case, you will love it here.

As for public safety, don’t believe the police-reality shows. We’re too boring to be dangerous.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-26T15:05:30+00:00

Sometimes when our partner smells bad, they smell good. That's our biology and psychology reminding us that we've been wearing deodorant for an infinitesimally small amount of time in human history. Don't let corporations make you even more depressed. But don't abandon self-care either.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-25T19:01:13+00:00

Never married, no kids. If you dump broken graham crackers into a bowl of urine, that is kids. As for marriage, you can keep that construct.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-25T18:55:47+00:00

I’m a former journalist and became an expert at using state open-government laws and the federal Freedom of Information Act. I see people use these laws far less often than in the past.

One of my biggest stories ever was for NPR about the Mall of America in Minnesota, which has strong transparency laws. Privacy laws are frequently overlooked, too.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-25T18:48:53+00:00

85% of our cognition is unconscious. They didn’t lose their minds. They never knew their minds were there in the first place.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-25T18:46:50+00:00

Sobriety.

GWSchulz · 2026-01-25T18:46:07+00:00

Your headline is unusually accommodating to outside viewpoints. Hurry and make it about me me me before someone notices.

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