Molly Ivins: My Turn

Posted by Freddie on February 1, 2007 under Uncategorized |

For years before I had a cell phone, I was a customer of Working Assets Long Distance. Through them, I also located their companion content site, WorkingForChange. It was there that I first discovered the writings of Molly Ivins. This was back in 2000 or so, and her criticism of Bush was no less well-founded or well-spoken then. She was the first political commentator I followed with any regularity. No offense to the other WorkingForChange contributors then or since, but her columns were the ones I sought when making return visits to the site. Sadly, Ms. Ivins died yesterday after years of fighting breast cancer. Her editor does a better job eulogizing her than I can. I do encourage anyone searching for a synthesis of wit and incisiveness in political commentary to examine her ouevre. It’s worth your time.

For those who want a final fiery polemic, here’s her last column. Let’s do her proud and stand together against the man and the administration on which Ms. Ivins has astutely and correctly lavished so much criticism, especially on this war and the ensuing military adventures it might engender.

I can’t honestly remember who recommended Working Assets to me. But it was likely my longtime girlfriend/partner, Whitney Boon, who is currently working on a breast cancer research study at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and had the quote of the day, as far as I’m concerned:

I don’t know which is worse - politics or cancer. I respect Molly Ivins’s will to fight both. –Whitney Lee Boon