The Sine Qua Non of Amarillo

Molly Ivins, Populist Texas Columnist, Dies at 62

After Patrick J. Buchanan, a conservative candidate for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National Convention that America was engaged in a cultural war, she said his speech “probably sounded better in the original German.”

“There are two kinds of humor,” she told People magazine. One was the kind “that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity,” she said. “The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule. That’s what I do.”

Oh Molly, I do think this is awful damn rude, leaving us like this. Can't be helped, I know, but I do bitch. Miss you already. But your lines are going have something like eternal life: you'll be quoted as long as politicians are fools.

“If his I.Q. slips any lower, we’ll have to water him twice a day.”

And with proper attribution, gladly, gratefully. You're the best, Molly Ivins. Rest In Peace.