I was always impressed that my local paper in Bloomington, Indiana would carry Molly Ivin's column every Sunday. It was a wonderful contrast to read her Texas-style commentary after slogging through George Will's demonstrations of a wide vocabulary trapped inside a closed, narrow mind. Molly repeatedly gored Bush using language and metaphors that even Dubya would understand. I cannot see Texas governor Perry without chuckling about Molly's nickname- "Good hair".
Molly's commentary on current events was always level-headed and would have appealed to even the most staunch blue-collar conservative. Molly's passing is not just a loss for the hundreds of newspapers that carried her columns, and to the magazine "Mother Jones", but it is a national loss.
Dubya's still in power, and you would have made hay with his recent "I'm the decision-maker" comment. Perhaps the best way America can honor your journalistic endeavors, Molly, is to impeach your fellow Texan and his boss Cheney.
Our loss is the Good Lord's gain- I can hear him chuckling already.
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