Different in Texas ?

Is it really different in Texas ? Posting an email exchange, which I've inverted for chronology:

-------- Original Message --------
Date: Tue, October 3, 2006 4:20 am

I just don't understand Texas (and their perceived threats to
civilization)...
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The [Supreme] Court also refused to consider whether a Texas law making
it a crime to promote sex toys shaped like sexual organs is
unconstitutional.

At 09:55 AM 10/3/2006, ***** wrote:
Jim, I'm gonna refer this to my good Texan buddy Brooks. Brooks, Jim is
my old Indy roommate, currently enjoying civilization in San Francisco.
*****

Don't know if I'd say I'm "enjoying" "civilization" here, but I haven't had my peace disturbed by any sexual toy promotion. In fact, a couple of weeks ago was the Folsom Street Fair, an outdoor leather event that features leather porn stars in all their glory. I believe we may have passed by Folsom street on our way in and out of town that day, and somehow managed to miss any traffic backups. The San Francisco police were recruiting new members at the event.

Noted: one of the few things the SF Police seem to be good at is crowd control. The recently announced that they were thrilled to have a new fleet of motorcycles to set up speed traps around town, but so far, I've only seen them joy-riding around like a motorcycle gang.