“She believed in democratic politics and hated it when people didn’t exercise their rights to vote and protest. She believed in government and hated it when people ran it down.” Molly Ivins, 1944-2007. “Her columns and essays — and for that matter her wonderful, low, smoky voice, if you were lucky enough to hear her talk — used her regional sensibility and experience to illuminate the wider world. She talked Texas but her subject was the universe.“