Molly Ivins - I haven't seen a column for a few weeks. Is she ill?

[SharonAnn]

She was diagnosed with breast cancer several years ago, underwent treatment more than once I think. I've been concerned about her for a while, after I saw her without hair within the last year.

Does anyone know?

[tpsbmam]

1. Odd, I was just wondering the same myself today.....

I looked for new columns this morning, but nothing since the end of August. She had a recurrence diagnosed in 11/05 and announced in Jan. '06. Hope to hell she's okay. She could just be on vacation.

[Bridget Burke]

2. Here's her column from August 24th....

RELEASE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2006, AND THEREAFTER

THE NEW "ACTIVIST" JUDGES

AUSTIN, Texas -- Another bee-you-ti-ful example of the right-wing media getting it all wrong. Here they are having the nerve to mutter in public about "activist judges" because Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has pointed out that spying without a warrant is illegal in this country -- so warrantless telephone tapping is illegal in this country.

Improbably enough, the first complaint of many of these soi-disant legal scholars is that Taylor's decision is not well written. No judicial masterpiece, they sneer. Nevertheless, warrantless spying is illegal. Did it ever occur to these literary critics that Taylor has a lay-down hand? The National Security Agency program is flat unconstitutional, and for those who insist this means Osama bin Laden wins, it's also ridiculously easy to fix so that it is constitutional.

Conservatives in this country have been yipping in chorus for years about "activist judges," and frankly, like fools, many of you bought into the phony political rhetoric about those terrible jurists.

www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv

And she's already making plans for October 6th:



www.texasobserver.org/events_mollybbq.php

[Dudley_DUright]

3. As the resident DU Molly poster, I agree with your observation

She usually takes off for vacation in August, but I believe she published a few columns after returning from vacation, but nothing for the last couple of weeks. She has been treated recently for cancer, but I don't know anything current on her prognosis.

[librechik]

4. she had a recurrence

don't know how she's doing--I suspect she's on vacation.