Collateral Damage Sr. knew the redoubtable Ms. Ivins and kicked around with her a bit. Over the weekend he told me of a multi-hour ride with her in Texas. She was driving and had a beer and a cigarette going the entire time. Despite this, he says, her driving was perfect. (Later in life, she would put down all those beers and other stuff.)
He also told the story of going to give a speech to some Rotarians in Keokuk, Iowa*. A couple of weeks earlier Ms. Ivins had given a talk to the same group a few weeks prior and the Rotarians were a bit nervous to be encountering another one of these liberal media types. Turns out one of the things Molly had said was, “Everyone knows the three most overrated things in this country are Mack trucks, teen-age pussy and the FBI.”
Apparently she had stumbled into a hotbed of Mack truck fans.
*It was probably a different group somewhere else in the Midwest. I generally don’t take notes when speaking with family. Sometimes they wish I did, though. “I said I was going to do what?”
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