It's Saturday Morning and no Molly Irvin's Column - Sigh.

[leftyladyfrommo]

I'm really having trouble with losing Molly Ivins. I can't really explain it very well. I never met her. But I read her books and I read her columns every Saturday morning.

I always felt like she was a kind of beacon shining thru the night. Someone who always told the truth. Someone I could always depend on.

And, oh, how she made me laugh. She made me see ourselves as hopeless sometimes, tragic sometimes, stupid sometimes, but always funny.

I just wish she could have lived a little longer - so she could see that our country was getting back on track again. So that we could all hear her voice for a while longer.

Thank you, Molly. Thank you for everything you gave us.

[Dinger]

1. Maybe We Should Post Some Of Our Favorites. Here's One Of Mine:

About george will & the French:

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2003/107

"Don't boycott the French!
February 18, 2003

AUSTIN, Texas -- As our coaches used to say, "OK, people, settle down and listen up." We have been enjoying a lovely little spate of French-bashing here lately. Jonah Goldberg of The National Review, who admits that French-bashing is "shtick" -- as it is to many American comedians -- has popularized the phrase "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" to describe the French. It gets a lot less attractive than that.

George Will saw fit to include in his latest Newsweek column this joke: "How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? No one knows, it's never been tried." That was certainly amusing. One million, four hundred thousand French soldiers were killed during World War I. As a result, there weren't many Frenchmen left to fight in World War II. Nevertheless, 100,000 French soldiers lost their lives trying to stop Hitler. . . . ."

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Thank you. I'm sure someone will publish a book of her columns

I think it would be a huge seller.

I hope they put lots of pictures in it.

[malaise]

4. She did

Who Let the Dogs In.

[nuxvomica]

3. A great column

With Molly's down-home charm and ready laughter one could easily forget what a brilliant and learned writer she was. She fileted Will in a few easy strokes, cast his remains aside and wrote something profound about Franco-American relations at a time when others were just making jokes or sound-bites about the subject.

[Jim Warren]

6. Even the Rude One

looses all rancor in the sweet glow of Molly.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2007/02/goddamnit-molly-ivins.html

[Ilsa]

5. You could count on Molly to tell the truth. We lost

a great patriot this last week.

[kedrys]

7. Here's an interview she gave last year before she spoke at the Progressive Forum

in Houston. I was lucky enough to see her. She was lovely and hilarious.

http://www.progressiveforumhouston.org/html/audioIvins.htm

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Did you get to see the piece PBS-Lehrer- had on her?

About Texas art? It was just too funny for words.

[PsN2Wind]

9. The Tucson morning fish wrapper

had a tribute column by Kathleen Parker, where Parker told what a wonderful writer Molly was although usually wrong (according to Parker).

[papau]

10. I just got back from a business trip to Texas (Austin/Dallas) - the Thursday night

city Hall Thursday night spontaneous gathering for Molly Ivins - a memorial if you will, with gentle sounds - drew near a hundred by my account

The actual funeral service is at the Methodist Church in Austin.I just got back from a business trip to Texas (Austin/Dallas) and 55 had parkas hoods-up!-now Boston