My press guy also runs a PAC that is trying to legalize Texas Hold 'Em in Texas. Should be quite a show at the Texas Capitol tomorrow.

Too many Baptist in Texas against gambling, drinking, and sex.

Too many Baptist going to Louisiana and Oklahoma for gambling, drinking, and sex.

Your comment might be funny if you left out the phrase "drinking and sex."

Not intended to be humor. It is simply the facts. The laws in Texas related to gambling, drinking, and sex exist from the Baptist Bible Belt push to have them. Even the liberal Baptist protect dry counties and routinely oppose changes to gambling laws, and no one even mentions out-dated laws regarding what happens behind closed doors.

However, every weekend, like LA to LV, you can see heavy traffic on I-10 or I-20 to Louisiana, and I-35 to Oklahoma.

I live in a dry Texas suburb (Irving), so I'm quite familiar that dry cities and counties dot the state landscape. That most of the state is wet is why I found the inclusion of "drinking" in your original comment dumb.

The only antiquated state law pertaining to sex I'm aware of was overturned by the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas.

Tell me more about this sex tourism that Oklahoma and Louisiana are generating.

I'm thinking more of the things that lead to sex. Particularly remembering during the 1990's when Baylor didn't allow dancing on campus, because of course, that might lead to an unmarried man touching an unmarried woman, and OMG. Ok, so they didn't have to go further than Austin or College Station.

Call it a little hyperbole.

Interestingly, Mississippi is more Baptist than Texas, but Mississippi has c@sinos (on the Mississippi River and on the Gulf Coast) and we don't, unless there's an Indian c@sino within our borders.

We do have some pari-mutuel racetracks - and the lottery, of course.