I Miss Molly Ivins

Her take-down of Camille Paglia should be read by every person in the world.

All 6+ billion.

Tracing Paglia's intellectual ancestry is a telling exercise; she's the lineal descendant of Ayn Rand, who in turn was a student of William Graham Sumner, one of the early American sociologists and an enormously successful popularzier of social Darwinism. Sumner was in turn a disciple of Herbert Spencer, that splendid nineteenth-century kook. Because Paglia reasserts ideas so ingrained in our thinking, she has become popular by reaffirming common prejudices.

Go read.

I miss Molly. She was the best thing to come out of Texas since....maybe ever, and both my kids were born there.