Molly Ivins Commentaries; Molly Ivins Commentaries

  • Commentary one begins. Molly Ivins on Republican Conventions in Dallas.
  • Geraldine Ferraro Secretary
  • Dallas- the most self-conscious city in the least self-conscious state.
  • Dallas as hysterically funny.
  • Loopy Right Wing Billionaires
  • Bunker Hunt
  • "Trigamist"- H.L Hunt
  • Dallas billionaires are more outrageous than anything she can invent.
  • Commentary two. No Cowboy boots in Dallas.
  • Dallas as a painfully straight town
  • Salad bar at the Stop n' Go.
  • "Terminal self-consciousness"
  • Commentary three. State Liscense Plate
  • Wildflowers are not sufficiently macho.
  • Jim Rudge in West Texas
  • Wildflowers and gay rights
  • "Oklahoma: the Recruiting Violations State"
  • End commentary
  • Commentary four. Prince Charles in Texas
  • Texas Sesquicentennial
  • "Chuck"
  • Mark White as a nerd.
  • Lieuternant Governor doesn't talk
  • Gib Lewis & his mispronounciations
  • "Too much is not enough"
  • End of commentary
  • Commentary five. Ugly spectre of "nerditude"
  • No pass, no play
  • Governor Mark White did not participate in extracurricular activity
  • Mark White as the first nerd in Texas
  • Governor White was active in the Baptist Church
  • White worked to help his mother.
  • Texas governors is the "Valhalla of Nerds"
  • Commentary six. Single, 40 year old women have a low chance to find a mate.
  • Newsweek article
  • Women preferring to stay single
  • Longtime unmarried person
  • "Mrs. John Smith"
  • "Here lies Rudolf Richter 1822-1913...and wife"
  • Commentary seven. Race for the Governor of Texas
  • "Clements Gate"
  • Clements and White debate
  • "Governor charm"
  • Clements as bi-ignorant
  • White thirty points behind
  • Nuance running amok.
  • Commentary eight. Legal angle on the Iran arms scandal.
  • Bill Clements got a donation fom anti-terrorism group.
  • Weak governor system.
  • Commentary nine. "Pay for Play" Scandal
  • August 8th, 1985
  • Deal was a deal
  • "Everybody's doing it"
  • Lady Longhorns
  • Few folks care for a hypocrite
  • Legislature is not veto-proof.