I miss Molly Ivins already.

Here are just a few of my favorite Ivins observations:

“Our very own dreaded Legislature is almost upon us. Jan. 9 and they’ll all be here, leaving many a village without its idiot.”

“If you think his daddy had trouble with ‘the vision thing,’ wait till you meet this one.” (On the Current Occupant of the White House.)

“Unfortunately for us and for the world, the people from the first Bush administration who initially joined this administration were Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. Not exactly the most diplomatic, forward-looking, helpful people to be guiding Dubya.”

It was the damn breast cancer that eventually prevailed. As a surviver of the same disease, I always loved her honest description: “Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.”

Reading the newspaper will never again be as much fun.