Friday, February 02, 2007

Molly Ivin's Memorial Service

For those of you who live in or nearby Austin, this could be of interest. I plan to be there but I imagine it will be busy:

A memorial service for Texas columnist and author Molly Ivins, who died
Wednesday, is slated for 2 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church at 1201
Lavaca St. in Austin. It will be followed by a gathering at Scholz Garten at
1607 San Jacinto Blvd.

This is why she was a well respected, beloved political writer:

As a political satirist, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Molly Ivins was
deliciously bipartisan. The Texas-based syndicated columnist once called Bill Clinton 'weaker than bus-station chili' and wrote of Ronald Reagan that 'if you put his brains in a bee, it would fly backwards.' Her book, 'Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush,' continued an Ivins tradition of spraying journalistic defoliant on all elected Bush

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