ADIÓS, AMIGA
Molly Ivins died today. Mourn the loss of one both fine and feisty.
Smart, skilled and sassy, the gal had moxie.
"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."
Puncturing the pompous and discomfiting the comfortable in her own inimitable style, she done good.
Obituary here. R.I.P.
Update Feb. 1 5:15 a.m.: A rousing remembrance:
Keeping a promise she’d made when her old friend and fellow Texan John Henry Faulk was on his deathbed, Molly accepted a steady schedule of invites to speak for local chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union in dozens of communities, from Toledo to Sarasota to Medford, Oregon. Though she could have commanded five figures, she took no speaker’s fee. She just came and told the crowds to carry on for the Constitution. “I know that sludge-for-brains like Bill O’Reilly attack the ACLU for being ‘un-American,’ but when Bill O’Reilly’s constitutional rights are violated, the ACLU will stand up for him just like they did for Oliver North, Communists, the KKK, atheists, movement conservatives and everyone else they’ve defended over the years,” she told them. “The premise is easily understood: If the government can take away one person’s rights, it can take away everyone’s.” Article
