Mixed bag: global thoughts, a fun movie and a poem

Posted by John Small | Mar 2, 2022 | Small Talk

At least a few of you, I’m sure, are familiar with that old Vulcan proverb about Nixon and China. There’s another old Vulcan proverb: “If you’ve gotten Switzerland to take sides, you’ve really ****ed up.” As I drove to work Tuesday morning I found myself with a mental image of Darth Putin, sitting in his […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Mixed bag: global thoughts, a fun movie and a poem

About The Author

John Small

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