Well Crap On A Stick, Anyway

The world has lost one of the good ones:

Columnist Molly Ivins dies
By JOHN MORITZ
STAR-TELEGRAM AUSTIN BUREAU

AUSTIN — Molly Ivins, whose biting columns mixed liberal populism with an irreverent Texas wit, died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home in Austin after an up-and-down struggle with breast cancer she had waged for seven years. She was 62.

Pretty much everything I know about Texas, particularly politics in Texas, I know because I started reading Molly Ivins.