R.I.P. Molly Ivins: What Is Remembered Lives

For years, when the air was stagnant and choking with right-wing crock-o'-propaganda, we always knew we could count on Molly Ivins for a little bit of oxygen to help us through. Somehow, although dwarfed in syndication by the gasbags of the neocon world, Molly stood up for what was real and what was right and still managed to throw in a bit of humor. We sure will miss you, Molly, and pray that somewhere out there are journalists who will take the torch you bravely carried, and continue to educate and enlighten those whose eyes can see and ears can hear. Maybe that's all of us.

"We are the deciders," she wrote. "And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war." -- Molly Ivins