R.I.P. to Molly, who had the sharpest wit of any columnist I've ever read and aimed it at the people who deserved it most. She died of inflammatory breast cancer Wednesday at 62.
I don't remember when I first read one of her columns. I do know it wasn't in the Texas Observer (many many tributes at that link), since I've never seen a hard copy of the magazine. It must have been a syndicated column in one of the local papers, back in the 70s or 80s. She had a gift for describing a politician and the scene he inhabited better than almost anyone else. Here's a compilation of some of her best quotes.
I'll miss her.
Posted by Linkmeister at January 31, 2007 08:06 PM | TrackBackI'll miss Molly too.
Posted by: Serge at February 1, 2007 03:59 AMI first read her column in the Progressive Populist, which, I think, Jim Hightower owned, but maybe not. I got a free trial subscription that kept coming for quite a while. I remember being afraid to throw them out, since my father wouldn't have approved if he'd seen them, so I hid them under my bed.
I didn't agree with her often, but there was an elegance to most of her sniping that I appreciated.
Posted by: Andrew Shimmin at February 3, 2007 09:08 AM