Molly Ivins

I enjoy the articles of Molly Ivins. I think we share a lot of the same personality. In her article yesterday, she was recapping some quotes previously printed from others. I thought I'd share some of the highlights with you:

"Any idiot can face a crisis: It is this day to day living that wears you out." -- Chekhov.

H.L. Mencken on the prose of one of another of our presidents who had some difficulty with English: "Setting aside a college professor or two and half a dozen dipsomaniacal newspaper reporters, (Warren Harding) takes first place in my Valhalla of literati. That is to say, he writes the worst English I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls up to the topmost pinnacle of tosh." Huh???

Bob Eckhardt, on the occasion of the Texas legislature voting to cut off aid to illegitimate children: "I am not so much concerned about the natural bastards as I am about the self-made ones."

Abbie Hoffman: "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."

"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those your are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing -- for the sheer fun and joy of it -- to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it." -- I.F. Stone. I've often felt that way about gay rights legislation. How many years did we have to try only to get turned down in adding "sexual orientation" to the list of groups that cannot be discriminated against in Connecticut? We kept trying and trying year after year until we finally got a governor who would sign the legislation. When that happened, suddenly a lot of lawmakers (should we call them "spineless wimps"?) decided to switch their votes and side with the governor.

"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature." -- Samuel Butler.

The enemy is not conservatism. The enemy is not liberalism. The enemy is bulls -- -." -- Lars Erik Nelson.

"Status quo is Latin for 'the mess we're in."' -- A Texas farmer.

And finally, a quote from someone I very much admire:
"A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world." -- Dr. M.L. King Jr.

ok... the Darvocet is now working... Time for me to catch a few winks. See yall later!