Posts Tagged ‘peta’
On Tacos, Tech, PETA, Poop And Kelly Clarkson
JEFF PRINCEPeople in my office love Wednesdays — it’s Taco Day after another late Tuesday night spent putting out your beloved Fort Worth Weekly. My egg and sausage taco with a big, gorgeous strip of bacon down the center was real...
PETA’s Deep Pockets
StaticJesus surely loved a good fish sandwich despite the fact that tartar sauce wasn’t invented until years later. Mr. Loaves and Fishes himself once fed 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two little fish. That’s im...
Hot Mermaid To Welcome Swimmers?
Jeff PrinceThis week’s Static column talks about the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) offering money to Fort Worth to help reopen public pools in exchange for displaying an advertising campaign. It’ll never h...
Feral Hogs On Legislative Hit List
Jeff PrinceState legislators appear more eager than ever to get rid of feral hogs — the Texas House voted 137-9 to expand helicopter hunts. Good for them. Sometimes sentiment and intense resistance from PETA-types stand in the way o...
Swatting PETA
Jeff PrinceHow does People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) expect to be taken seriously when they make a stink about somebody swatting a fly? I was talking to a guy who owns a barbecue joint in Azle — we were discussing ...
Tiger Lady Attacks
Jimmy FowlerOne of the many reasons I was drawn to Catholicism is that the church has such a thing as a “patron saint of lost causes.” (That would be Saint Jude, for those interested). I said a prayer to St. Jude when I heard about PET...