many of you have asked. indeed i admired and will miss molly ivins, formerly a colleague at creators, and a sortof drinking buddy of my wife in the deeply decadent journalistic circles of austin, tx. there is a severe lack of creative liberal voices, or of liberal voices with flair or a light touch. this is because liberalism is an extremely solemn and dogmatic unanimity among the highly, indeed insufferably, educated. at any rate, molly rocked a couple of times a week for decades.