Title: Stale, smug, condescending
Review: Why hasn't Molly Ivins disappeared yet? Can't she be replaced? Is there really such a shortage of Ann Richards disciples in the world? Her politics are very stale indeed, but any editorial writer with similar politics would be an improvement on her. The real irritant in her writing is not her politics, but her style and persona as demonstrated in this self-description of her newspaper days."...I would denounce some sorry sumbitch...as an egg suckin' child-molester who ran on all fours and had the brains of an adolescent pissant, I would courageously prepare myself to be horse-whipped at the least."All columnists seem happiest when writing about themselves and this passage is intended to be funny (this might need to be pointed out), but it is still a fair sample of her writing. What person (from Texas or anywhere else) wouldn't find this overdone impersonation of a redneck condescending? And who would buy a book that has so much smugness implicit in its title?
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