This is the way I want to remember Molly

[stonecoldsober]

[Horse with no Name]

1. Awesome pic.

Thanks for sharing.

[havocmom]

2. Absolutely

Thanks, we needed to see that smile.

[NanceGreggs]

3. FABULOUS PHOTO!!!

Really captures the warmth, and the contagious laugh!

Thanks for posting.

[Bluebear]

4. Awesome book too! nt

[TomInTib]

5. Molly holding Court at Scholtz's

Those were some fine times, when Texas was still Texas.

[Marnieworld]

6. She was so special

I wish I got a chance to meet her. I haven't read any of her books so I can get to know her even more now. :cry:

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Here's a very lovely letter to the editor

in this morning's Anchorage Daily News written by Fran Ulmer, our former lieutenant governor under Tony Knowles...

Molly Ivins loved to go fishing. She also loved to go fishing in Alaska.

Years ago when she spoke to the Alaska Women's Political Caucus, a fishing trip was part of the deal. I took Molly salmon and halibut fishing out of Gustavus. Sitting on deck in the fog and listening to one hilarious story after another, it was hard to concentrate on "pullin' up those hogs" -- a bit bigger than her Texas bass. She loved it.

On her next trip north, to speak at an ACLU banquet (one of her favorites because its mission is to protect the Bill of Rights, and nothing was more dear to her than that), she experienced more Alaska magic (Talkeetna for the Moose Nugget Festival, floating the Tokositna River, viewing Katmai bears and then a few days on the fish-rich Agulowak River).

What made those days so special was not just her sense of humor and gifted storytelling. It was having the opportunity to learn the depth of her commitment to help awaken the spirit of America. Wake up America; pay attention to the things that really matter to the future of this country -- and that is not "American Idol."

Her writing and speaking displayed her passion for civil rights and social justice, for opportunity for all and not just a few, for peace and an end to the war. And it did not stop just because she was on vacation.

I am sad to lose a friend, but I am even sadder that we have lost that funny, smart, outrageous and compelling voice when we need it so much.

---- Fran Ulmer

[Booster]

12. Great letter and nice find. Thanks for posting this.

[Beaverhausen]

8. Great photo - here is Kinky Friedman's tribute

There was a great photo with this in Sunday's LA Times, sadly its not on the website.

Molly Ivins -- 'a truth-seeking missile'

Columnist Molly Ivins was a feisty truth-teller unafraid to battle those who prevented a better world.

By Kinky Friedman, KINKY FRIEDMAN is an author, musician and former candidate for governor of Texas.
February 4, 2007


A true maverick died in Texas last week, and they don't make 'em extra.

There'll always be plenty of George Bushes and John Kerrys to go around; the Crips and the Bloods will trot them out every four years whether we like it or not. But a voice in the wilderness, like the still, small voice within, is a song to be savored while we have it, whether we're listening or not, and when we have lost it, we should mourn for ourselves. Such a voice was that of Molly Ivins.

I met her on the gangplank of Noah's ark. I did not agree with her on a lot of things. Like Sinatra, I've gotten more conservative as I've gotten older. But not Molly. With the awkward grace of a child of our times, she clung to her ideals and notions and hopes, riding against the wind in a state as red as the blood of a dying cowboy. The word I'm looking for is "righteous." Righteous without being self-righteous.

Molly was a truth-seeking missile. She was a devil and an angel and a spiritual chop-buster who went after anybody who got in the way of a better world. Quite often she towered above the people she wrote about. They, as likely as not, were merely the slick, lubricated heads of well-oiled political machines; she was a dreamer, a little girl lost at the county fair, who somehow grew up to be a brave and bawdy and brilliant ball-buster in a state where men have always been men and emus have always been nervous.

In an age in which the five major religions are Bank of America, Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Starbucks, Molly Ivins was an atheist. The New York Times, which got Herman Melville's name wrong in his obituary, called Molly a "liberal newspaper columnist." The Los Angeles Times said she was a "political humorist and best-selling author." They were right, of course, but those are the words we use when we don't know what to say.

read the rest here
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-friedman4feb04,1,1355933.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

[Beelzebud]

11. One of the best lines ever is in that editorial. Maybe Kinky isn't so bad:

In an age in which the five major religions are Bank of America, Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Starbucks, Molly Ivins was an atheist.

Beautiful!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. I like the line comparing the 2 political parties to gangs (Crips & Bloods)

[AndyA]

9. That's great! And I'll bet that's the way she would want to be remembered, too.

What a great lady she was, and we are all fortunate to have been on Earth at the same time.

The sands of time pass quickly by, few are the choices we are given.

RIP, Molly.

[sarge43]

10. That's the way she'd want to be remembered

having just dropped a snark bomb on the Texas leg.

Say hi to Mark and Lenny for us, Molly.

(typo as usual)

[Pharaoh]

13. Oh Yeah!!!

K&R