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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Monterey
California
Knocked
Michael
Brain

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Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.
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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
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Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.
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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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