Again tonight, KFOR ran local commercials on top of time the station had sold to NBC for The Tonight Show, just as it did yesterday. Here's the July 29 list of advertisers whose businesses I will not patronize because they're enabling this scam at KFOR:

• Fowler Toyota

• Subway (new chicken salad sandwich)

• Ferguson Pontiac/Buick/GMC

• Wyatt, Austin, Kingery, and Hale, attorneys at law

• Oklahoma GMC dealers

The Tonight Show starts at 10:34:30 PM. KFOR finally started showing it around 10:37 PM. No one involved in this should get your business.

Update: KFOR didn’t cut off even one frame of the opening to The Tonight Show on either Thursday or Friday, possibly related to me bringing up the topic at HDTVOK.com. Interestingly enough, Conan mocked Oklahoma City in a monologue sketch Thursday night. I can’t imagine that it was retaliation. Well, I can imagine it, but I can’t imagine that it’s true.

Same day, same RSS feed, presented together without irony. Story #1:

WASHINGTON — Rep. Dan Boren said Tuesday that it was "actually a positive” that the Republican National Committee is running a radio ad in his congressional district about health care reform.

Boren, D-Muskogee, the only Democrat in the state’s seven-person delegation, said the ad urges people to call him and that he encourages the same thing.

Opposes current form

Callers will learn, he said, that he has "many problems with the (House) legislation” and would oppose it in its current form

"I’ve taken the position of slowing this down, letting our constituents read the bill and learn about it.

And story #2:

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma ranks 44th nationally in a new state-by-state study on the well-being of America’s children.

The 2009 Kids Count study found that since 2000, Oklahoma improved on three of 10 measures affecting child well-being.

It seems odd that the Boren story’s RSS summary is so much longer than the other—but then again, if you read more of the second story, you might want, oh, I don’t know, health care reform?

The 2009 Kids Count study found that since 2000, Oklahoma improved on three of 10 measures affecting child well-being. But conditions worsened for Oklahoma’s kids on six others.

Oklahoma’s death rate for children aged 1 to 14 increased 16 percent between 2000 and 2006, from 25 deaths per 100,000 to 29 deaths per 100,000.

The state’s death rate for teens aged 15 to 19 also rose, from 77 deaths per 100,000 in 2000 to 85 deaths per 100,000 in 2006.

In addition, the percentage of poor children in Oklahoma increased from 19 percent in 2000 to 22 percent in 2007. The state ranks 41st nationally on that measure.

So by all means, Rep. Boren (and your GOP friends), let’s slow down the idea of improving any of this. If they die before they’re eligible to vote, that’s just one less thing for you to worry about.