Molly Ivins died today in Texas. She was 62*:
What’s there not to like about a columnist who’d once written, “I’m not anti-gun; I’m pro-knife.†Molly’s point was, typically, half serious, tongue in cheek. If you use a gun, you don’t need to be in shape as you would if you had to kill someone running with a knife. Using knives, she said, actually would promote physical fitness….
A liberal’s liberal, Molly was genuinely home-spun and humble, a genuine product of the Lone Star state. She stood in stark contrast to the faux cowboy currently taking up space and oxygen in the Oval Office, a Connecticut Yankee desperately running away from his Ivy League upbringing and education and, in the process, giving hubris and arrogance an even worse name. Molly not only never ran away from her liberal roots in the one place where liberalism is perhaps the least welcome, she embraced it and let her freak flag fly high and proud.
H/t to JP for the correction on Molly’s age.
We’re going to miss the columnist who referred to George W. Bush as “Shrub.” Here’s a link to Molly’s last column, published Jan. 11, in which she fervently exhorted all of us to stand up against the surge in Iraq.
Thanks for the link but she was 62, not 63. Either way, she was taken from us far too early.
Molly, Molly, Molly,
Why did you have to go so soon?
There is no one who can give the world what you gave us. Your humor, your intellect, your huge smile, your words. I miss you already.
Life will not be the same without you.