Michael Schaub posts this interesting interview with Texas author, songwriter (The Ballad of Charles Whitman, They Ainít Makiní Jews Like Jesus Anymore and Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed), musician and independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, which includes the following pearls of wisdom from the self-styled original Texas Jewboy:

Q: Do you think youíd be able to work with the Democrats and the Republicans in the state legislature?
Absolutely. I will charm their pants off. Invite ëem over, weíll have some barbecue, smoke some cigars together, and weíll get this thing rolling. And a lot of things can be done without the legislature, . . . Iíd like to rename four state highways after Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Bob Wills, and Buddy Holly. Not toll roads, by the way.
Q: (State) Senator Jeff Wentworth objected to naming a road after Willie Nelson this year.
Thatís right! (Laughs.) But it was a toll road! Willie said heís worked hard his whole life, and doesnít want a toll road named after him, and that maybe the electric chair would be good.
Q: Who do you think was the last great governor that Texas had?
Great? Probably Sam Houston. Itís been downhill from there. I always like to quote Henry Kissinger, who said that 90 percent of politicians give the other 10 percent a bad name.
Q: Youíve talked about your ìanti-wussificationî campaign for Texas. What does that involve?
Making it okay to say ìMerry Christmas.î Making it okay to smoke where you want to. Bringing back the Ten Commandments. I may have to change their name to the Ten Suggestions. I want to bring them back to the public schools. They were taken out not because of church and state, but because of political correctness. Some atheist came up and said he didnít like the Ten Commandments. We all know what happens when an atheist dies. His tombstone reads ìAll dressed up and no place to go.î By the way, Iíve written my own epitaph, Mike, which is: ìIf you can read this, youíre standing on my head.î Itís a good one, ainít it?

Read the entire interview. If Friedman stays in the race, then the television ratings for the upcoming Texas gubernatorial debates in 2006 may set records. ;^)