With apologies to Charles Dickens. . .

"Molly Ivins was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. . . Molly Ivins was as dead as a door-nail."

She has indeed been dead for more than four years. Yet, [on Saturday, 8/13,] The Bee opinion section devoted a third of a page to examples of her vitriol and name-calling. Because in their liberal meanness, the editors apparently want to destroy the presidential candidacy of Rick Perry. Ivins couldn't discredit him the first time around, and little will be accomplished by this beating of the dead horse of her rude rhetoric.

[Speaking of horses, at the time of her death in 2007, I blogged, "We. . . have horses, and when I see them running with their tails held high, I recall the departure of Molly Ivins." Just goes to prove that anyone can be as insensitive as she was.]