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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWounded Bear
(58,440 posts)a great combination, TBS.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,382 posts)What would her columns look like today? A woman whom we lost WAY too young.😥
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,847 posts)I think she was warning about derivatives and all kinds of financial shenanigans years before the housing market crash too.
WVreaper
(618 posts)stopdiggin
(11,092 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)She would have gone after that Orange Criminal Creep with her own inimitable style.
erronis
(14,952 posts)holding to her head? And that box in front with little roller-thingees? And the basket with what looks like leaves of dead trees.
Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins:
AZ8theist
(5,339 posts)However, forensic research continues...
diverdownjt
(699 posts)It has buttons with all the letters and numbers on them...those dead tree leaves fit in it perfectly...but we still cannot figure out what it's for. Obviously a communication device
but it wasn't plugged in and there were no IT cables connecting it to the net....simply
baffling. While we were there the black thing began making noises with out any one
touching it. The noise didn't stop until that black thing on a leash was picked up....after that
we just couldn't figure it out...so we went to the bar and stared at our smart phones without talking to each other...I mean sure we were texting each other but talking is for losers.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Paladin
(28,202 posts)Nobody has ever done it better than Molly. What an absolute feast she'd make of the sorry state of current events.
fantase56
(440 posts)someone i always thought i'd like to have a cocktail with.....
Mickju
(1,794 posts)I miss her so much.
madamesilverspurs
(15,783 posts)Somewhere Molly and Ann are having a conversation about the trump era. And who wouldn't love to be a fly on that wall!
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erronis
(14,952 posts)A playlist of their interactions on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjX3ukwBo2Goue__ZHfd8Ms15x708tpb7
gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)Razor sharp wit. We lost one of the best.
DFW
(54,051 posts)We ALL miss Molly Ivins.
iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)the deeper you did the richer you will be."
ms liberty
(8,478 posts)If you have the ability to stream to get it.
yellowdogintexas
(22,119 posts)appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)NNadir
(33,368 posts)...clique of anti-Democratic Party, aka the "Green Party" where the term "Green," given the hatred of science that almost approached the hatred of Democrats in that set, was an oxymoron.
A problem that is really facing the world at large is that, especially in the twit tweeting age, by and large, people have confused wit with thinking.
No one can think respectably in a sound bite.
If mere wit was thinking, Maureen Dowd would be considered an intellectual rather than an abysmal trivializing fool who thought that Al Gore's suit was a major political matter.
Ms. Ivins was willing to advance the idea that Al Gore was the same as George W. Bush, and many American and orders of magnitude more Iraqi's were destroyed and blown to bits based on the willingness of a small number of people in Florida who, like Ivins and Moore, embraced a lunatic named Ralph Nader, whose paranoia, delusion, self importance was positively Trumpian.
Despite some noble efforts of people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and others, the country has never really recovered from that.
I do not miss Ms. Ivins.
Rebl2
(13,309 posts)She would be horrified at what is going on today.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)I had the amazing good fortune to see her speak some years back. She was sharp and witty and it was a joy just to be in the same room.
yellowdogintexas
(22,119 posts)It was a Democracy Fest and she shared the stage with Jim Hightower and Howard Dean. What a Night! She was getting very thin by then; I think she died about a year later.
I miss her terribly
Hekate
(90,189 posts)paleotn
(17,779 posts)I truly do. She was a gem. Sometimes I wonder what she'd think about our current predicament. Most of what she'd think wouldn't be printable.
mnhtnbb
(31,319 posts)while we were living there in the '90's. She came to do a talk for a local Dems dinner. She was quite charming and entertaining as a dinner speaker.
Then, when Kathleen Turner brought the one woman show about Molly Ivins to the Arena Stage in DC, "Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins," I got myself a ticket and drove up to see the show. It was fabulous. Just fabulous.
There's a nice interview with Kathleen Turner about her role as Molly here:
And this link to the print interview: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/amy-henderson-red-hot-kathleen-turner-72154862/?utm_campaign=20121017&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=youtube.com&utm_content=atmkathleenturner
dhill926
(16,234 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)Imagine what they would be writing today.
Paper Roses
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JDC
(10,081 posts)Molly helped her out a ton. Great lady.
locks
(2,012 posts)and Roger Ebert brought so much great opinion and joy every year to the Conference on World Affairs at University of Colorado. How we have missed them. I would love to have heard Molly take down Trump and all the crazies. I hope we have some young people who will learn from Molly and some of the great liberals.
cp
(6,543 posts)Part of me is glad that she did not have to endure Dumpy.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)She was, and is, wonderful.
Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)(referring to W) "....not exactly bent double with intellect."
Folksy, polite and scathing, all at once. Who can do that?
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)rustysgurl
(1,040 posts)... the husband and I attended the opening of the Clinton Library and, prior to the ceremony, were walking back toward the library from a local restaurant. I stopped dead in my tracks, as right towards us, on the sidewalk, chatting away like two old lady friends, were Ann Richards and Molly Ivins. They walked up to us .. I stammered something about admiring them both greatly, and having voted for Ann when I lived in Texas. They were both gracious, and we moved on. What a memory.