— California’s legislators are diet-crazy (Personal Fat Trimming Preoccupies Lawmakers,) a big change from the good ole days:
Tony Beard, the Senate’s chief sergeant at arms, has seen many trends in his 21 years on the job. In the old days, he recalled, there was an ashtray on every desk, and the only jogging legislators did was “over to the Hotel Senator for a Scotch at 4 o’clock.”
Now it’s surgery, high-protein diets, and carrot sticks. What is the world coming to?