Posted on 01/27/2007 4:43:33 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope
AUSTIN - Nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins has been hospitalized in her recurring battle with breast cancer.
"I think she's tough as a metal boot," her brother, Andy Ivins, said Friday after a visit with her at Seton Medical Center in Austin.
Andy Ivins said his sister was admitted to Seton on Thursday. She spent Friday morning with longtime colleagues and friends, and was "sleeping peacefully" when he arrived later in the day.
A self-described leftist agitator, Ivins, 62, completed a round of radiation treatment in August, but the cancer "came back with a vengeance," and has spread through her body, Andy Ivins said.
Ivins' columns, which she infuses with passion and wit, appear in more than 300 newspapers around the country. She's written six books, four of which were best sellers.
They included Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, which she wrote with longtime friend Lou Dubose; and Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known.
Ivins was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. A year later, she described her treatment with characteristic wit: "First they poison you; then they mutilate you; then they burn you. I've had more fun."
She received her third diagnosis a year ago; despite her illness, she's managed to crank out her columns.
In a piece earlier this month, she wrote that she was starting a newspaper crusade to end the war in Iraq.
"Raise hell," she urged readers. "Think of something ridiculous to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. ... We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!' "
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...
If you don't like it, take it up with Jefferson.
Getting off the thread is the wisest move. Suggesting replies be deleted because they don't fit your moral test...is not.
Maybe Molly Ivins will take her remaining time to reflect on all the hate she spewed over the years and find peace. While it would be nice thing to do ...frankly I don't care.
There's a brilliant debating tactic...
That's just your own inability to understand compassion, and you're transferring it onto others. I can assure you that I genuinely said a prayer for Ivans, and there was nothing inseincere about it.
It's hard for monsters to believe that we're not all monsters.
The only post nastier,more uncouth, and more lacking in sympathy and compassion, than the vilest post I have ever read on Free Republic, is the kindest, sweetest and most unbiased post I ever read on DU and on the pages of the MSM.
I can tell you my comments were from the heart...I hope no one has to go through what she is going through..I am sure she is on lots of drugs to stop the pain....but she needs to make sure she is right with God...
Politics has always been a nasty business. Our times are no different from all others in that regard. However, what we see on threads like this is not about politics. It's about something dark in the human spirit; something that has always been in us, but which civilization supposedly tames in us.
Civilization, civil, civic, civics, civility -- they all have the same linguistic root, which is from the Latin "civilis:" of or affecting fellow citizens. We supposedly live in a highly civilized time, and yet civility seems to be crumbling all around us, civics are no longer taught in our schools, and our mass communications media are used to demean and degrade our fellow citizens even as they are dying.
I said "the majority".
If you felt the need to defend yourself, that's your issue, not mine.
Bug off!
King David in Psalms asked God many times to destroy his enemies. I'm just sayin...
Then your bias is blinding you.
Of greater concern to me are the people of my association here that are possibly all too sincere in their wish that another human being suffers from cancer simply because they disagree with them.
Heh I've always wondered about that. Thanks for the bit of data. Do you happen to have a link or citation?
Yep. Irrational hatred causes stress, and that kind of stress is a killer, not only of the heart, but of the body and soul as well.
Lol, no it's quote from Freud. It's a simple sentence that underscores the mechanics of transference.
Thieves tend to be paranoid that someone is stealing from them. Bullies are suspect everyone else is likewise on the verge of violence. The unchaste think everyone is doing it. Etc etc.
In your case, you think everyone is being insincere because that kind of compassion is apparently alien to you.
As I typed that, I realized you might say that.
At the age of 60, I've seen the bar lowered in terms of what is acceptable behavior.
Growing up, I never read or heard ex-presidents publicly denouncing the CIC or foreign policy in time of war.
I never heard about presidents boinking actresses and pin-up girls because the press kept it quiet...at least if it was a democrat. ;^)
Politics seems almost pornographic in nature to this senior citizen.
Now, you're suggesting I am projecting because I lack the ability to feel compassion.
I cried when my pet died. Does that count?
Similar to the sentiments posted earlier, I similarly and sincerely hope Molly Ivins gets entirely what she deserves. Whatever that might be.
~ Blue Jays ~
I hope that none of us gets what we truly deserve.
We're all wretched sinners.
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