Where have you been, Kinky?

I miss Kinky Friedman.

I just heard him tell a TV interviewer that the nation's first order of business is to secure the border. True enough. But then the humorist, author and former Texas gubernatorial candidate -- he ran for governor in 2006 as an independent candidate -- went a step further.

He opposes building a fence along the southern border, an idea getting some traction among Republicans. Why not build a fence? "The way things are going in this country," Friedman said, "we may want to get out."