# Molly Ivins Is Very Sick **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 27, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753 "2007-01-27T19:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/61 "2007-02-01T16:56:32Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] Well, not the ones in public office; they’ve tended to be intelligent and hard-working. However, I’m sure Molly could offer some serious pith about the Kennedys as well. [/QUOTE] True that. Whatever the faults of the clan (and there’s plenty to go around) sliding by on the family name isn’t one of them. The group ethos was and is keenly competitive; those bruising “touch” football games in Hyannis typify the gung-ho attitude. You may sneer as you wish at Ted’s liberalism; snicker smugly at the mess he’s made of his personal life; but don’t ever doubt that, as a Senator, he’s been passionately committed to his ideals, yet highly effective at working with his colleagues to achieve what can practically be done. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/62 "2007-02-01T17:17:45Z")
John Nichols pays tribute to Molly in [_The Nation._](http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070219/molly_ivins) ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/63 "2007-02-01T17:31:55Z")
Thanks for the link…I sat here and cried when I read it. Because I was one of the ones in the Flyover States to whom her column in the Decatur paper was nearly the sole voice reminding us to “keep fightin’ for freedom and justice”. Shit. Just…shit. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/64 "2007-02-01T17:49:39Z")
Even the [Freepers](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777049/posts) are broken up . . . for the most part . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/65 "2007-02-01T18:00:15Z")
[Democratic Underground thread.](http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2711230) Working for Change has [all her columns back to 2001.](http://www.workingforchange.com/column_lst.cfm?AuthrId=8) ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/66 "2007-02-01T18:01:17Z")
Damn, Damn, Damn. We’re going to miss you Molly. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/67 "2007-02-01T21:26:35Z")
Molly Ivins, from the Nation Link above: > [@](#): > > So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was. I hope she’s still laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/68 "2007-02-02T02:23:39Z")
I’ll copy what I posted in the MPSIMS thread, since that one seems to be going down: 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.”). ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/69 "2007-02-02T10:59:36Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] You may sneer as you wish at Ted’s liberalism; snicker smugly at the mess he’s made of his personal life; but don’t ever doubt that, as a Senator, he’s been passionately committed to his ideals, yet highly effective at working with his colleagues to achieve what can practically be done. [/QUOTE] Passionate commitment has fuck all to do with silver spoons. Bush is just as passionately committed to his own ideals. It means nothing. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753/70 "2007-02-02T14:15:47Z")
Paul Krugman wrote a laudatory column emphasizing how right Molly was when so many were so very, very wrong… For instance… > [@](#): > > …Nov. 19, 2002: “The greatest risk for us in invading Iraq is probably not war itself, so much as: What happens after we win? … There is a batty degree of triumphalism loose in this country right now.”… For more, go to [http://atrios.blogspot.com/](http://atrios.blogspot.com/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molly-ivins-is-very-sick/389753.md?page=3)