I have family in Austin.
It's wild.
The City Council is wild.
An only slightly harder-working Texas version of New Orleans without near as much history, architecture, good food or, sadly, authenticity.
Used to be fun, in a dated '60ish kind of way, until about 1982. The hipsters are desperately trying (and failing) to re-create the Austin Scene.
A caricature of its former self, in other words.
Politically, it's all about competitive liberalism, i.e., people competing hard to see who can be more liberal than his neighbor.
Travis County is a fat, dissolute old man/lady living off dreams of a long gone youth, thumbing its nose at lean, mean conservative Dallas and Houston, while belching tired old liberal cliches and wondering where the next ice-cold six-pack of Shiner Bock and a Jamaican herb filled self-rolled cigarette will come from. Maybe the next "Save Willie from the IRS" fest will supply them.
Yeah, I can easily see Travis County as the source of RAthERgate. Cooked up at a midnight skinny dip at one of the local lakes which was liberally supplied with plenty of chemicals, thus explaining the stupid technological mistakes. |
