Molly Ivins, RIP.

I'd be remiss if I didn't note and mourn the passing of the one the greats in journalism.

Columnist Molly Ivins passed away after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She was an astonishingly good journalist and story teller. Just a great, great woman.

I had the opportunity to meet her. Some years ago, at a writers' conference, I skipped out of one the sessions and wound up in the hotel bar with Molly and Rich Aregood, then the editorial page editor of the Philadelphia Daily News. Hanging out with these two passionate and accomplished journalists was like going to grad school.

When Molly passed, I told my wife I knew she was very sick, but I had hoped she would have been able to hang in there long enough to see Dubya leave the White House. (She called Dubya "Shrub.")

We'll miss her.