Sunday, February 04, 2007
Molly Ivins R.I.P.
From poet/author Maya Angelou's Washington Post obit/tribute to the great author Molly Ivins:
"Up to the walls of Jericho
She marched with a spear in her hand
Go blow them ram horns she cried
For the battle is in my handThe walls have not come down, but they have been given a serious shaking.
That Jericho voice is stilled now.
Molly Ivins has been quieted.
The writer and journalist, dearly loved and admired by many, hated and feared by many, died of cancer in her Texas home on Jan. 31, 2007.
The walls of ignorance and prejudice and cruelty, which she railed against valiantly all her public life, have not fallen, but their truculence to do so does not speak against her determination to make them collapse.
Weeks before she died, she launched what she called "an old-fashioned newspaper crusade" against President Bush's announcement that he was going to send more troops to Iraq.
She wrote, "We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. Every single day every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. We need people in the streets banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it now!' ""
Click here to read the full article.
Related:
Times political blog The Caucus: Goodbye, Molly.
Online:
BUY Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America
