Sadly, one of my favorite political commentators is gone. Molly Ivins ^[1] died of lung cancer at the age of 62. I liked her because she was funny, wrote about big things in layman’s terms, and had a down-home common sense about her. There’s a difference between a real Texan like her, and a fake Texan like Bush.

This is from the very last article ^[2] she wrote:

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!”

Someday, I hope to be as eloquent.