I have yet to experience a talk by Molly Ivins in person, but I'd love to. Hey Molly! Why don't you come to sunny S.B.?
News: Y'all don't despair, Ivins tells UW crowd
By Chuck Nowlen
May 6, 2003
Scared of your government under George W. Bush? Worried by the wartime notion "that we'll make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free?"Firebrand author and columnist Molly Ivins had the antidote for a decidedly liberal UW-Madison audience Monday night:
"I can tell you guys are really desperate and you need some cheerin' up," Ivins deadpanned at one point, bringing the packed Wisconsin Union Theater house down - seemingly with her irreverent, Texas-drawl delivery alone.
"Well, just be happy that you don't wake up every mornin' in Texas, where the price of gas is so high that women who want to run over their husbands have to car pool."