Oh no...

Nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins has been hospitalized in her recurring battle with breast cancer.

"I think she's tough as a metal boot," her brother, Andy Ivins, said Friday after a visit with her at Seton Medical Center in Austin.

Andy Ivins said his sister was admitted to Seton on Thursday. She spent Friday morning with longtime colleagues and friends, and was "sleeping peacefully" when he arrived later in the day.

A self-described leftist agitator, Ivins, 62, completed a round of radiation treatment in August, but the cancer "came back with a vengeance," and has spread through her body, Andy Ivins said....

And the Wingnuts respond as expected to the news:

In respect for the old adage that if you can't say something nice about someone it's better to say nothing, I will say nothing.

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Remember, you never know what loving prayer and concern for one's enemies will result in. She might have a change of heart, even now.

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Prayers for her recovery from cancer and from the liberalism.

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I do hope Ms. Ivin's takes a long break from her writing to focus on recovery. Say 10 to 12 years.

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from cancer and from the liberalism.

But then sir, you repeat yourself.

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Yes, but we still need to pray for liberals. They truly are an unhappy bunch. They may not admit it, but their constant anger, depression and lack of hope are eating them as surely as any cancer. Most of them don't even like themselves.

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I hope she recovers OK and the Doctors inadvertently sew her mouth shut before they send her home.

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It's sad that I have to suppress the thoughts I have...

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Her hatred of George Bush and Republicans these past six years probably took a toll on her health. Hating that much can never be good...

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My wife has had a couple of bouts with breast cancer. I've always believed stress was a factor, as she tends to internalize things. I suppose in keeping with that theory, excess vitriolic hatred could probably cause some health issues, too...

Much worse here. via No More Mister Nice Blog.

A thing of beauty

Scott at World o' Crap weighs in on Dinesh D'Souza's latest in the Washington Post. While Scott cheerfully eviscerates him:

…because if I can pin 9/11 on the liberals, then that will mean they’ve inflicted a more serious wound on the body politic than George W. Bush has with his septic war in Iraq. And all those sneering attacks from the right wing on people who tried, shortly after 9/11, to grasp the terrorists’ motives, who tried to understand “why they hate us” never happened, understand? They are no longer operative. Because now that we know that the terrorists don’t hate us, they just hate the Blue States, it’s okay to muse about their motives and even to publically approve of them. Amazing the distance we’ve traveled in just a little over 6 years, isn’t it? As another immigrant and noted foreign policy thinker, Yakov Smirnoff, famously observed, “What a country!”

And is utterly brilliant in doing so, but the comments on this one are not be missed either:

He is the very model
of a modern major scholar,
He churns out books that justify the wingnut welfare dollar.

At the Hoover Institution
of the Stanford University,
He parries slings and arrows cast by liberal diversity.

He decries in tones refined (he won’t resort to thuggery)
Enemies at home who love abortion and love buggery.

His scholarship is on his sleeve
and fraught with mediocrity…
He’s so dangerous he might be forced to drink hemlock like Socrates!

Left by FlipYrWhig

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Let’s see if we’re within spitting distance of the truth here: somebody at Random House was foolish enough to contract for this thing under the Random House imprint instead of any of hundreds of others they have available. Did they imagine they were getting a scholarly Ann Coulter? Did they have him confused with Deepak Chopra? We will probably never know.

But now they’re stuck with A-list promotion, and somebody books him on Colbert. I can only assume the booker had never met D’Souza in person, or else was fired by cell phone about one minute into the interview. Here’s a guy whose only combat experience is lobbing long-range artillery at cardboard targets and suddenly he’s in the tiger cage with the fastest gun in the business. And he’s not just depantsed, he winds up admitting he agrees with Osama bin-Laden. Wow. Were there reports of mass aorta explosions at Random House that day?

Because if there weren’t our time would be better spent trying to find out who’s actually bankrolling the Madame Nhu of the Naughts and his chocolate-coated turd of a book. In the interim, at least we know whose Op-Ed pages are available to other media conglomerates in need, don’t we? Okay, okay, like we didn’t know before.

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