Give a listen to NPR’s interview with Kinky Friedman,Texas gubernatorial candidate and former leader of the socially-conscious country band The Texas Jewboys (“They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore,” among other country-fried classics.) The interviewer calls Kinky’s stake in the 2006 governor’s race “seditious,” (it means ‘inciting public disorder or rebellion’;we looked it up), and says he has no chance, but we think that’s what makes him an attractive candidate. Nothin’ more Jmerican than havin’ a little seditious fun in the big, bland, Bible-thumpin’ heart of Texas.
It gets kinkier: Our rabblerousing Texas Jewboy is also an author. He’s written 18 novels, mostly self-referential mysteries about people who drink with midgets, but we read Kill Two Birds And Get Stoned recently and laughed a lot.