Molly Ivins is dead, we have lost a great light

It is with great sorrow that HotFlash notes the passing of the gallant Molly Ivins after her last battle with inflammatory breast cancer. This Texas tornado had style, wit and grace to spare. Molly had gone to high school with Dubya and had his number early on. She sounded the alarm before his run for TX governor and repeated it often in her columns over the years. This is from her last article, published January 12, 2007:

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 Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!"

The whole article is here as well as links to more of her writing.

More things to click on:

• light a candle for Molly (if you're into such things)
  
• Molly's breast cancer survivor page
  
• a Molly anthology from her old paper, the Texas Observer "Sharp reporting from the strangest state in the union"
• and the Dildo Diaries (adult Molly, for ditto only)
• Buy you some Molly books.
• And the New York Times, which couldn't keep her when she was alive, has written her a fine obituary.

So. We have our orders from the lady. "Stop this war."
(image from the Texas Observer)