Posted on 01/27/2007 4:43:33 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope
AUSTIN - 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.
Ivins' columns, which she infuses with passion and wit, appear in more than 300 newspapers around the country. She's written six books, four of which were best sellers.
They included Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, which she wrote with longtime friend Lou Dubose; and Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known.
Ivins was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. A year later, she described her treatment with characteristic wit: "First they poison you; then they mutilate you; then they burn you. I've had more fun."
She received her third diagnosis a year ago; despite her illness, she's managed to crank out her columns.
In a piece earlier this month, she wrote that she was starting a newspaper crusade to end the war in Iraq.
"Raise hell," she urged readers. "Think of something ridiculous to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. ... We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!' "
Get help. Seriously.
Politics is not a fight between Manichean forces of good and evil. Molly Ivins may be a political advesary who has used dirty tactics, but that doesn't mean we should gloat when she gets cancer!
As you know, female puppies grow up to be bitches.
Cancer isn't about a person deserving it. It strikes people regardless of how good or bad they are. To wish it upon a political enemy is puts you on the same level as people like Ivins. I doubt you really want to share that space with her.
Remember the mast things said about Laura Ingram? Don't lower yourselves to that standard of behavior. Rise above it and wish Ivins well despite her nasty demeanor.
Possibly her judgement of others is being visited upon herself? Karma can be a bitch.
Can you cite one published research paper that analyzed the statistical correlation between "malignant hatred" and the incidence of cancer?
We're all waiting.....
mast = nasty
I do personally think that stress, keeping emotions bottled up, anger, etc., can lead to disease and/or exacerbate a genetic predisposition to disease. But certainly some if not most disease can be random and unexplainable.
Last month, when my son was killed, there was a thread on DU offering prayers and support for my family. They rightly said that suffering transcends politics. We are all human. We all feel pain.
Ms. Ivins and her family are in my prayers.
In my experience it's usually the nasty ones who live to be 200.
That was decent of them.
Cancer, once manifest is always there, the best medicine can do is force remissions.
It's a major programming error and copies itself until there is no unaffected organ.
I agree with you that stress can be correlated with a myriad of diseases (e.g. hypertension). However, the uniformed posting to this topic seem to think that Molly Ivin's aggressive liberal tendencies or her lack of faith and spirituality (typical of liberals) caused her cancer and her progression over 6 years to the metastatic setting. The reasons for her disease are related to biology rather than to spirituality or politics....
She needs to look within herself and write about what she finds there. In other words, prepare to meet her Maker. (It's good advice for all of us.)
Why not?
The key is to gloat in private and not on an internet forum.
...especially one where Hillary can hire goons to track us down and make us pay for all the nasty things we've said about her.
/s
As I thought, you cannot cite a single reference...
If this concept of 'malignant hatred causing cancer' has been in the literature for years, you should have no problem finding a reference of a legitimate study with data supporting your theory.
In my world, cancer is caused by tangible things like smoking, diet, environmental exposure, genetics, etc.
Ditto to Ms. Ivins from me.
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