Have a look at this article from Esquire
'I Think You're Fat' by A.J. Jacobs
(AJ wrote a book,
'The Year of Living Biblically'--funny and
very informative. As part of it, he sought to avoid lying.)
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(tiny excerpt from a 5 page online article)
Quote
." If you mixed DNA from Lyndon Johnson, Ken Kesey, and threw in the nonannoying parts of Dr. Phil, you might get Blanton.
He ran for Congress twice, with the novel promise that he'd be an honest politician. In 2004, he got a surprising 25 percent of the vote in his Virginia district as an independent. In 2006, the Democrats considered endorsing him but got skittish about his weeklong workshops, which involve a day of total nudity. They also weren't crazy that he's been married five times (currently to a Swedish flight attendant twenty-six years his junior). He ran again but withdrew when it became clear he was going to be crushed.
(Married five times? How in mercy's name does one afford the legal fees and alimony?)
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