Molly Ivins has died.
My heart is crying. Molly was one of the best things we had around here. I still have some of her old columns that I thought were incredible, so I clipped them and saved them. I think I’ll pull them out and re-read in her honor.
RIP Molly.
As a Texan, I particularly mourn her death. Her writings on national politics were great, but some of her best work was aimed at more regional targets (such as the Texas Legislature), and so I think the American public at large missed out on some of her really good stuff. I remember her writing of a Texas politician, “If his IQ drops any further, we’ll have to start watering him twice a day.” Classic. Right up there with another Texas icon, Jim Hightower (who once wrote of the elder President Bush, “If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drilling rights on [his] head.”).
Heaven just moved up a notch. RIP.
And who can take her place? She was a straight shooter, a journalist with integrity who had sucha narrative voice that her personality leaped off the page at you.
There is no one left. Royko long gone, now Ivins.
Too. One fine lady, there. I’m grateful to her good wide eyes open, and for her steadfast ability to keep track of the foment in Texas politics, which, unfortunately, now has much to bear on the works of whole country.
Her voice will be greatly missed, and never matched.
I am really going to miss her. The Lone Star state has lost one of it’s finest today.
She would want us to learn from her example and fight the good fight.
Go thou and do likewise.
Molly Ivins columns have been helping to keep me sane for the past 7 years or so. I’m upset she’s gone, but I’m very glad we got to have her writing at all.
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I actually gasped when I saw this thread.
There’s lots of people who can write with a lively style. There’s lots of people who can write columns packed with accurate, detailed info. There’s lots of people who can analyze politics and America’s place in the world with wit and sharpness.
There was only one who could do all three.
RIP, Molly. You’ll be missed as the 2008 election machine starts chugging inexorably along.
Add my to the rest.
This is a very sad day indeed. What a loss.