Please note the second installment is up of MJS’s photo essay on Sunday’s protest march in Hollywood; don’t miss it, or the first, and the comment thread it elicited. Molly would have approved; Molly would have been at one of them.

Technical difficulties of an, as yet, unknown origin kept me from posting, as promised here, our first installment of a new weekend series, featuring our attempt to bring to bear Molly Ivins’ words on the week to week reality we now face, tragically, without her actual presence in her midst. So much seemed to be happening the last two days, I decided not to post it. Still a lot going on, (grinning, she rubs her hands), but I decided to throw it into the mix anyway.  Read more