Smoking in Serbia
…the Serbians on the train that day smoked more than any humanly possible, which may relate to why they were painted as unhuman and inhumane in their war against Muslims.
Reader has ‘beef’ with colum
Dear editor: Based on the enclosed feature article, āStuck Key,ā by your managing editor Rob DāAmico, I will not renew my subscription to The Boerne Star. This article may be appropriate in a newspaper in New York City, but Boerne, Texas — give me a break. Bille F Busby Boerne (Editorās note: Thanks for writing …
Dr. Phil Has Nothing to Do with Meat Processing
Dr. Phil is bald and sounds like a hick. He’s into psychotherapy in some respect. Not sure if he has a medical license and can dispense, I mean prescribe, drugs. But he’s popular on television, where he treads into his murky ways of helping people weep their way through problems, usually surrounding relationships….
On Cows
A couple years and a few killed animals later, I ended up as the managing editor of the newspaper in Boerne, Texas, a little town founded in the late 1800s by German immigrants, but well on its way to being just another San Antonio suburb. Like many of my other rural-oriented newspaper positions, I spent much of my time cruising through the countryside on narrow roads blaring music and every now and again, catching the eyes of cattleā¦
Dr. Death
Continued–a bit–from: Dr. Phil has Nothing to Do With Processed Meat From then on, after the night of Jack, I began killing animals. They showed up, or I stumbled upon them, wounded. I would come across a bird fallen from its nest, bare naked and gasping for the branches above, squinting through dry-eye mucous to …