A word about columnist Molly Ivins, who passed away yesterday:
I know that I'm not going to change the world, and that my eventual passing will not be noted on the nightly news. If it was, I hope that my epitaph will be something of more consequence than the one I heard on the radio when I learned of Ivins' death:
"Molly Ivins, the columnist who was the first to use the nickname 'Shrub' to describe President Bush, died today after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 61."
And that was it. That was her contribution to society, her $.02 donation to the public discourse, the nutshell in which her life can be summed up: a dumbass nickname.
Wow. Congratulations on that, you know? Rest in peace, you good and noble servant; your work here is done. Or something.
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