Erma Bombeck on America's 4th of July

[TXPaganBanker]

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness."

[2naSalit]

1. I loved her.

She'd be very popular today if she were still here.

[Delmette2.0]

2. I haven't thought of Erma Bombeck in years.

Thank you TXPaganBanker for giving me a bright moment.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. She was a great comedian

Her books were very funny and shone a light on American society.

[LittleGirl]

4. Love Erma

I still have several of her books. Laugh out loud funny!
Thanks for sharing!

[Xavier Breath]

8. I never read it, but when I was a kid my Mom owned a copy

of The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, a title that has stayed with me to this day

[wendyb-NC]

5. She was so funny, witty and wise

All at once. Her outlook was beautiful.

[leftieNanner]

6. We could use her wit now

And Molly Ivins too.

[wnylib]

7. OMG. Considering how Molly demolished

Bush Jr with her biting humor, imagine what she would have written about DJT.

[Emrys]

9. I don't know why, but as a kid growing up in Wales, my parents had a book collection of her columns.

I loved good writing even at an early age (I was into Woodhouse around age 10), and devoured it.

Some of the stuff she talked about was alien (e.g. "plats" of real estate), but enough was universal, and often hilarious, that it drew me in, and taught me a little about America.