Regardless of the outcome of the 2006 gubernatorial campaign in Texas, independent candidate Kinky Friedman won. Although he didn't achieve the governorship (he ran, he retorted, because he needed the closet space), Kinky gained new friends and readers. He probably made some enemies too, but because this is a family magazine (see the note at the end of this review), we decline to publish Kinky's response.

In this political postmortem, subtitled "Ten Commandments for Texas Politics," you read, laugh, and then say, "You know, that makes sense."

In his chapter, "Thou Shalt Fight Wussification," Kinky rails against "Got ya!" journalism, smoking bans in public, and political correctness. "Most people don't know the name of the man who coined the phrase, 'political correctness,' he writes. "I'll tell you. It was Joseph Stalin." To know what's "correct," he says, just think, "WWWRD," or "What Would Will Rogers Do?" Kinky always makes us laugh and think. --Gary D. Ford

Note: Sensitive readers who blush easily should be warned that Kinky never uses a fancy, $5 phrase when a four-letter word will do.