Campaign to Honor Molly
Quote from the Detroit Free Press Letters to the Editor: Earlier this week, just on a whim, I checked Molly Ivins' "Shrub" out of the library. In December of 1999, nearly a year before America's most dubious election, Molly wrote, "For an upper-class white boy, Bush comes on way too hard-ass -- at a guess, to make up for being an upper-class white boy. But it's also a common Texas male trait. Someone should probably be worrying how all this could affect his handling of future encounters with some Saddam Hussein, but that's beyond the scope of this book."
Oddly, at this juncture I find myself agreeing with Laura Bush -- more Americans should get in the habit of reading. And would that all our writers be blessed with Ivins' prescience and perspicacity.
Paul R. Erickson
Detroit
Possibly her most important quote ever, from her last published column: We are the deciders.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/11/ivins.surge/index.html
We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on January 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!"
More cartoons to honor her:
http://pics.livejournal.com/patsmor/gallery/0003982w?page=1
Oddly, at this juncture I find myself agreeing with Laura Bush -- more Americans should get in the habit of reading. And would that all our writers be blessed with Ivins' prescience and perspicacity.
Paul R. Erickson
Detroit
Possibly her most important quote ever, from her last published column: We are the deciders.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/11/ivins.surge/index.html
We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on January 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!"
More cartoons to honor her:
http://pics.livejournal.com/patsmor/gallery/0003982w?page=1