Alas, I Am More Cynical

[fj]

What Molly Ivins taught me is that speaking truth doesn't change shit. I'd read her work and think "My god if even half of this is true, why are these people still free?" Yet they kept being free. Her columns are hilarious lists of excesses both in the Texas state and US national legislatures, and in the end, the people she despised and exposed got to vandalize their territories on and on to greater profit, and she was marginalized.

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I think she enjoyed being funny.

Sometimes when things are so senseless and wrong the only way to get through them is with laughter.