Editor’s note: This column, taken from Jon Mark Beilue’s book, “This Might be a Good Story ...” first appeared in the Amarillo Globe-News on Feb. 1, 2009. Here I was on a Saturday morning taking the American Mensa test. Think about that. Me, taking the Mensa test. That’s like Helen Keller testing to get her commercial driver’s license. read more
Best Of Beilue: News Flash! I'm No Genius
JON MARK BEILUE, Amarillo Globe-News
Fri, 12/19/2014 - 7:57pm
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