Who here reads Molly Ivins?

[Earth_First]

http://www.alternet.org/authors/1406/

[texastoast]

1. Love her

I'm so glad she wanted to come to Texas from California. I'll never understand why, but I'm glad.

[punpirate]

3. She was actually brought to Texas...

... by her parents (when she was four years old, I think). For practical purposes, she grew up in Texas. That's how she knew Dubya when she was in high school. They grew up in the same general neighborhood in Houston.

[radio4progressives]

4. Ivins is from California?

Her twang is soo, Texan.. ;)

She's great, i really don't care where she's from. We need more people like her.

[blogslut]

2. I read her

I love her.

[malaise]

5. Love her

want to read everything she writes. I adored Who Let the Dogs In?

Thanks for that great link.

Edit add.

[napi21]

6. I always read her articles, and watch EVERY time she's a guest

on any TV shows. She was on cspan's Q&A last weekend. She was great, but it was also obvious that she's getting pretty old.

I don't see ANYone who could come close to stepping into her shoes!

[Gabi Hayes]

8. I talked to her on a radio show once....I asked her if she thought

Bush reminded her of a chimpanzee, among other things

[Earth_First]

11. Here is the video of her Q & A appearance:

http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=Molly+Ivins

Click the first query result for the interview

*DISCLAIMER: The Hillarybots are not going to enjoy this interview*

[SharonAnn]

12. Is she having chemotherapy again? I saw her last Friday on C-span

Brian Lamb's morning show. She was great, as usual. But I noticed she was wearing a knit stocking type hat and it looked like she had no hair.

If she's having chemotherapy again, then does that mean the breast cancer is back?

God, I hate to think of losing her. She's a real voice of sanity.

[blogslut]

13. sigh

yes. the cancer is back:

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/27ivins.html?imw=Y

"Molly Ivins, battling breast cancer afresh, sounds as feisty as ever.

The South Austin resident continues writing her left-of-center column, raising money for the journal where she forged her tart take on politics and, of course, cheerfully gigging Republicans such as the well-coifed governor of Texas.

Brian K. Diggs
AMERICAN-STATESMAN

'Actually, I feel pretty good,' syndicated columnist Molly Ivins said Wednesday at her Travis Heights home. For a third time, she's battling breast cancer.

Ivins, 61, tongue-in-cheeked that Gov. Rick Perry's trip to Iraq this week will slow anti-American insurgents. "The mere sight of his hair will do a world of good," she said..."

[yellowdogmi]

7. Hands down my favorite.

I adore that woman. She plainly tells it like it is. God bless her. Have you heard that she has a relapsing course of cancer. That sucks so much. We need this lady.




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[buddhamama]

9. I do-

her books, her articles. Molly's approach to politics is my own: Have fun, laugh, Kick ass !!!

[jrw14125]

10. interestingly...

I brought her book "Who Let the Dogs Out" with me on vacation last fall, which coincided with Katrina. So, I was able to see the flood devastation on cnn international and bbc news, while at the same time read Molly's book on the dirty poitics of Delay, Bush 1 and 2, and Texas politics in general. Nice 1-2 punch.