Texan Kinky Friedman, author of “Texas Hold ‘Em,” is running for governor. Given the successes of Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Kinkster figures he could be a governor, too; since governors don’t do any “heavy lifting,” he could do “some spiritual lifting,” perhaps referring to his vow “to fight the wussification” of Texas. Apart from arguing for know-nothings in politics, Friedman supplies his readers with a great number of lists: Texas cheerleaders, Texas inventions, Texas oddities, Texas prison slang, etc. He even tries his hand at a bit of pop sociology, pondering the number of former Eagle Scouts on Texas’s death row: He says, “Texas is number one in executions and number 50 in education… Dr. Phil might ask, ‘How’s that working for ya?'”
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