Ah, the beer garden! Steak tartare- a pound on your plate for 75 cents. A large dark beer for 15 cents. And songs in the Gesangverein in back. And the Nighthawk. A large plate of hamburger and beans with toasted buns! Real student food.

I wonder if the make-work jobs at the capitol are still passed out to the needy among constituents on recommendation by the senators. Under the dome in the Capitol rotunda (larger than that place in Washington)- so many people running around (in Austin, a slow walk) looking so busy- and all on the State dole.

Molly Ivens writes for the sane among us.