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Are_grits_groceries

(17,139 posts) Sun Feb 14, 2016, 05:50 AM Feb 2016

Of all the people I wish were here to watch this election,

Molly Ivins is the one I miss most.
She could write a column every day and not cover everything. It would be hystericl.

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Of all the people I wish were here to watch this election, (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Feb 2016 OP

+420 berniepdx420 Feb 2016 #1

I think Linda Ellerbee could fill in for her these days: kentauros Feb 2016 #2

She's good. I'll take her. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2016 #3

Yes I remember her very amusing support for that fellow who claimed... NNadir Feb 2016 #4

Personally, she may be the one non-lawyer I would nominate to the SCOTUS vacancy. silvershadow Feb 2016 #5

I've thought of her a number of times. Hortensis Feb 2016 #6

She'd have to write malaise Feb 2016 #7

Very Well Said..."Who Left the Clowns out??"..and that is what she would write..of course! Stuart G Feb 2016 #9

Mike Royko, Herblock and even HL Mencken Vogon_Glory Feb 2016 #8

berniepdx420

(1,784 posts)

1. +420

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 05:51 AM

Feb 2016

kentauros

(29,414 posts)

2. I think Linda Ellerbee could fill in for her these days:

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 05:52 AM

Feb 2016

Are_grits_groceries

(17,139 posts)

3. She's good. I'll take her.

Reply to kentauros (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 05:55 AM

Feb 2016

I still miss Molly.

NNadir

(38,540 posts)

4. Yes I remember her very amusing support for that fellow who claimed...

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 05:55 AM

Feb 2016

...that Al Gore was exactly the same as George W. Bush - what was his name? - um, oh yeah, that great profound and deep critic of NBA officiating, Ralph Nader.

That was hilarious, a great joke played on the United States for one group, and the citizens of Iraq for another group.

I, for one, miss her delicious sense of humor. Bush = Gore. Hilarious. Fun. A joy. I just can't stop laughing.

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)

5. Personally, she may be the one non-lawyer I would nominate to the SCOTUS vacancy.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 08:10 AM

Feb 2016

Can you imagine the hearings? LOL

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

6. I've thought of her a number of times.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 08:13 AM

Feb 2016

She loved the ridiculous, and I'm really sorry she's missing this one.

malaise

(297,947 posts)

7. She'd have to write

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 08:15 AM

Feb 2016

Who Let the Clowns out??

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)

9. Very Well Said..."Who Left the Clowns out??"..and that is what she would write..of course!

Reply to malaise (Reply #7)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 08:31 AM

Feb 2016

Vogon_Glory

(10,354 posts)

8. Mike Royko, Herblock and even HL Mencken

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 08:29 AM

Feb 2016

I think Chicago columnist Mike Royko, cartoonist Herblock, and even HL Mencken could have fun with this Presidential election.

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