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

Please sign the Austin-American Statesman guestbook

Austin cries: Molly Ivins passes away

One of Austin's most famous torch bearers passed away. I remember reading her column for the first time in the Arizona Republic thinking, wow! Finally someone who's got a handle on what is going on in this country! Well, I am not going to try to speak in lofty terms, there will be plenty of eloquent speakers and writers who will do so in the next little while. I just hope that if she will have a burial service, that it will be a public one, so I can pay my respect.

Here is to a Texan we'd all need and like to remember!