The curation process was tough. Clips came up and I said holy shit. I mean, a laugh a minute. And Ivins knew how to wield that humor. Jim Hightower says it in the film. She was a hardcore alcoholic.
Her breast cancer came back several times before she died in January Talk about prescient. Beyond the magazine. Create Account. Already have an account? Remember me. Lost your password? Don't have an account? Six nearby bakery employees, their place of work their only thing in common, died of cancer. Their widows filed a lawsuit. The case lost because the law firm didn't have the money to do a million-dollar epidemiological study.
Note: Toxic waste tort cases are exactly the type of lawsuits targeted in Bush's tort reform push. The abandoned toxic waste site was declared an "orphan" Superfund site in , and, after heroic efforts by a man named Bob Siegel, received a temporary rubber blanket over it, designed to last for years, in The EPA never returned to clean it up for good because it ran out of money. Why was that? Cleanup of orphan sites is paid for by the Superfund Trust, which was in turn funded by a tax on the chemical industry.
Oil companies, responsible for much of toxic dumping, made sure they were never included in the tax. That tax was killed in as part of the "Contract with America". Bill Clinton tried twice to reinstate it, but couldn't get the Republican Congress to do so. The Superfund Trust consequently dried up. Now general appropriations funds are supposed to pay for cleanups; indeed, George W. Bush promised this, but since the money in those funds have gone to deficits, tax cuts, and funding wars, they, too, have dried up.
Molly said that the media asked the wrong questions earlier about George W. Bush's chemical dependency problem. It's not cocaine, it's Monsanto, Dow, and Union Carbide.
Are you picking up on the common thread that runs through these stories? No wonder Molly identified the greatest political evil to be corporate control of public affairs. Another environmental story. The short version: Because of the influence of the meat and poultry industries, the USDA does not have the authority to conduct tests for microbes such as Salmonella at meat and poultry plants.
The government can recall toys, cars, and infant cribs but it cannot recall tainted beef. The USDA does not have the power to impose fines on irresponsible slaughterhouse operators.
It cannot require plant supervisors to inform the Secretary of Agriculture if a plant is shipping products that don't meet safety standards. USDA inspectors have little authority to stop a production line if they suspect contamination and wish to check more closely. The USDA will only back them up if it verifies the contamination, and it verifies that only if "gross" contamination is found.
Environment Reading 1 "The industry doesn't want you to know it, but "ready-to-eat meat is not ready to eat. A USDA website warns that ready-to-eat meats--cold cuts-if not thoroughly cooked, are a risk to pregnant women, the young, the old, cancer patients, anyone whose immune system is suppressed. The industry has successfully fought to keep that warning off packaging labels and grocery-market coolers. Do you know anyone who cooks ready-to-eat deli meats? Almost all of it is perfectly safe, but every now and then a Listeria-tainted batch of luncheon meat or hot dogs makes it into supermarkets and restaurants.
Some of the people who eat it die: five hundred a year in the United States. Now these statements were true when written 4 years ago. I wonder if regulations have improved. I'm going to slip in a guilty pleasure here. I'd like to share a few zingers that Molly either coined or borrowed and used in her columns.
Even though she could get plenty riled up over an issue, she didn't actually hate any individuals. But she could sure get exasperated with them and she didn't hesitate to use her wit and voluminous vocabulary to skewer them. She never used them on other than powerful people, however. Here are a few:. Zingers Runnin' on his rims Ronald Reagan. Cross-threaded between the ears Ronnie again.
If his IQ slips any lower, you'll have to water him twice a day. He don't know nothin' and he has that all tangled up. Slicker'n bus station chili. Ross Perot. Walkin' around dead, and don't know enough to lie down. So mean he wouldn't spit in your ear if your brains were on fire. So dumb that if you put his brains in a bee, it would fly backward. But usually Molly took the high road. She also knew that she wasn't in this fight alone. She was a sincere populist; she was dedicated to speaking for the interests and views of the "common" people, and taking up their cause against the rich and powerful who worked against those interests.
Yet she also knew that there were multitudes of voices out there in complete agreement with her, and in incomplete agreement that weren't speaking up. Her bout with breast cancer was one tussle she couldn't win, and she died in at age Engel uses archival footage of Ivins so that much of the doc is told in the writer's own voice. Prescient clips speak to the political quagmire we find ourselves in currently, and show that while Ivins is no longer here, we can still learn a lot from her wisdom.
Copland died on December 2, His ashes were scattered at Tanglewood. River Phoenix was reportedly cremated. His ashes were scattered at the family's ranch in Florida. Lewis was cremated and her ashes scattered in the garden of the crematorium.
She was cremated after her death and some of her ashes scattered sea by her close friends and family. Pat Tillman was cremated, his ashes were scattered at sea. Log in. Famous People. Adolf Hitler. Celebrity Births Deaths and Ages. Julia Child. Add an answer. Want this question answered? Study guides. Q: Where was Molly Ivins buried or ashes scattered? Write your answer Related questions. Where is Barry White buried? Where is Al McGuire buried?
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