Comments on: Molly Ivins, 1944 – 2007

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:34:14 +0000

Patrick – Karma basically means “what goes around comes around”. With an attitude like yours, you better be watching your back, because no one else is going to do it.

(With any luck, he’ll soon be spinning around like a dog chasing his tail, drilling his way down through the earth’s crust and there will soon be one less brain dead neo-con in the world.)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:33:40 +0000

Karma is a bitch….Just one less brain dead socialist in our society.

By: skeptigirl

skeptigirl — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:31:03 +0000

Code for line thru “talk” above didn’t work. One of these days I’m going to learn these blog codes.

BTW, on one blog they have a small list of the active codes for that blog at the bottom of the column…hint hint.

By: skeptigirl

skeptigirl — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:28:28 +0000

They played a Molly Ivans talk Comedy Hour on our public radio last night. It was hilarious.

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:48:42 +0000

Phil – Molly was my favorite political columnist. I checked Ft. Worth Star Telegram site every day to see if she had something new up. There was a long period recently when nothing and I heard she had cancer. I was really upset about that but then she had a couple columns recently so I thought she was getting better.

I will really miss her. I’m glad you had the opportunity to meet her and took the time to say a few words about her. I wish a lot more people were like her.

By: Coyote Mercury » So Long, Molly

Coyote Mercury » So Long, Molly — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:23:51 +0000

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By: Adria

Adria — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:41:42 +0000

I saw her speak at Smith a few years ago when I was a student there. She was an inspiration to us all. We’re all sorry to lose her.

By: The Ridger

The Ridger — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:14:49 +0000

I envy those of you who met her. I wish I had. I read all her books, and every column I could find. She was a national treasure and will be sorely missed.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:51:28 +0000

This country has lost a true patriot and hellraiser, and we are lessened by her passing. I’m just glad that I got to meet her at the Conference on World Affairs — spending 30 minutes in the car with her on the way to Boulder from the airport was an amazing experience.

By: fatherted

fatherted — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:36:12 +0000

Molly opened my eyes regularly. I could believe what she said — she didn’t spin; it was always real.

Not many like Molly. The world grew a little darker when she left us.

Farewell Molly.

By: spacewriter

spacewriter — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:35:40 +0000

I posted an earlier comment that never made it here, but back in the day, when I was a fledgling science writer for the Denver Post, Molly came for a visit to the newsroom. She was funny, gracious, and to the point.

Her writing was always a breath of fresh air.

Gonna miss ya, Molly!

By: HawkeyeMD

HawkeyeMD — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:35:07 +0000

“And, yes she did have a dog named S**T â€” she wrote about him most movingly in one of her books (the name of which Iâ€™m spacing out right now).”

‘Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?’. The only book before or since that I ever saw the writer on a talk show (David Letterman, IIRC) and went out the next day to buy her book.

Phil, you met Molly Ivins? Now I’m even more convinced you are a god. *g* I met her once, very briefly, after a talk she gave in NY. She was riotously funny, of course, but I didn’t get a good quote line out of it.

By: Will. M.

Will. M. — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:16:39 +0000

Molly Ivins, Art Buchwald, Edward Abbey, E.R. Morrow…like so many before them since Franklin and Paine – all American practitioners of courageous, unvarnished free speech in the best traditions of the free press in this country. The fourth estate is all the poorer for their passing. And who will take their place? Are we moving rapidly toward the day when newspapers become the hired mouthpieces of their corporate owners, publishing only the uncritical pablum that is designed not to offend their advertisers or their narrowly-focused readers? Is the internet becoming the last place where we can read uncensored speech, or will the oceans of opinions both accurate and false overwhelm users eventually? Or will the current attempts to regulate the net by fearful capitalists and reactionary right-wing government hacks prevail? No matter what time we live in, it is certainly interesting.

By: buffalodavid

buffalodavid — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:03:39 +0000

She made watching “The Ledge” a national sport. I truly sorry to get this news.

By: Kid Cool

Kid Cool — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:49:13 +0000

This is the first I’ve heard of her passing. It is truly sad she was folksy, but got it right. She is a person that makes me proud to say I’m a Texan.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:33:33 +0000

I’m going to miss Molly. I linked to her articles often and saw her speak too. She didn’t beat around the bush (or Bush), and called it like she saw it. She also had a longtime insider view of Texas politics and wasn’t afraid of the tight political circles here (and people like Tom Delay who would often display bullying behaviour).

She was only 62…a shame.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:08:40 +0000

I saw her speak at the CoWF in Boulder in ’03. Very smart, funny lady. She will be missed.

By: spacewriter

spacewriter — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:54:02 +0000

And, yes she did have a dog named S**T — she wrote about him most movingly in one of her books (the name of which I’m spacing out right now).

Darn, I’m gonna miss Molly…

By: Kyle_Carm

Kyle_Carm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:04:33 +0000

Yep Texas lost a couple of great ladies not afraid of saying what they saw a BS as being BS. Both Molly and Ann Richards will be missed in my opinion.

By: skeptigirl

skeptigirl — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:01:14 +0000

I have a book of hers and also enjoyed her commentaries. I knew she wouldn’t pull through but I’m sorry it was so fast. And then on the other hand, it probably wasn’t. She must have stayed home until almost the end.

It’s a shame. We can treat so many cancers but just not all of them.