We Love You Molly - By Harvey Wasserman

[XOKCowboy]

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0130-24.htm

Great tribute to our beloved Molly on CommonDreams.org. It also has a place to send donations in Molly's name.

[bluescribbler]

1. K&R

I love Molly Ivins. I miss her columns. I wish her health.

[babylonsister]

2. Recommend. From the article:

Perhaps most important to remember is that she has not been just a writer. From her modest but gracious home in the heart of Austin, she has done anything but sit back and snipe with that unique penetrating wit of hers. She could have done it. She could have just gone to that keyboard every day, blown them all away, and built her national reputation from the sheer genius of an insulated ivory tower.

But Molly has always been a firm believer in hands-on non-violent combat, which in hands like hers is the ultimate weapon. She puts her heart and soul where her convictions are. She’s fought tooth and nail for The Texas Observer and whatever other worthwhile publications there are that can muster an audience in the Lone Star State. She’s worked with the great Jim Hightower in his climb to elected office. She supports candidates. She goes out of her way. She works hard. She makes her presence felt wherever she thinks it’ll do some good, no matter what the personal cost.

All the while being our very premier writer/humorist. If Mark Twain has a female counterpart on today’s political and journalistic scene, it is Molly Ivins. She has that miraculous ability to slice and dice an entire raft of political horse-dung with a single simple sentence, laced with wry, seeded with sweetness, and so often utterly cleansing and clarifying.

I love you, Molly, and am so sad you're so sick. :cry: :pals:

[Morgana LaFey]

3. That's quite a tribute -- and every bit well-deserved

Mark Twain's counterpart. Hmmm. So true:


If Mark Twain has a female counterpart on today’s political and journalistic scene, it is Molly Ivins. She has that miraculous ability to slice and dice an entire raft of political horse-dung with a single simple sentence, laced with wry, seeded with sweetness, and so often utterly cleansing and clarifying.

[Marnieworld]

4. I can't stop crying over this

I hope this type of thing reaches her now. :cry:

[Dinger]

5. K & R For Molly

:patriot: :grouphug:

[Dinger]

6. Someone, Please Tell Me There Is Some Hope, Any Hope At All

PleaseO8)

[Beaverhausen]

7. Thanks so much for this link

this is too sad... :cry:

[Dinger]

8. Another Kick For Molly

:kick: :grouphug: :yourock: Molly!

[XOKCowboy]

9. As you all probably now know Molly passed on today...

It is indeed a sad day for Progressives and for the world in general.

RIP Molly. I love you.