Molly Ivins can't say that, can she? Book

I had a more extensive review and somehow lost it.

Molly Ivins was a hoot, with a genuine love for Texas, people, politicians, scoundrels, scamps and crooks (some redundancy there), and even Lubbock. Her collection of anecdotes are priceless - I love the apocryphal one about the Texas legislator who took money from the chiropractors' lobbyist, then voted against the bill. When asked why, he explained that 1) the doctors gave him more money and 2) the lobbyist should have known he was weak when he took the chiropractors' money.

She's also serious about freedom of the press and the First Amendment: at a meeting to restrict pornography, a group came to oppose the bill. She said, you look at your friends and realize how many of them look like perverts.

This book made me want to become a reporter, despite all the negatives.

I mourn her loss.