Retraction

Molly Ivins, like any other good-ol-boy muckraker, is almost always entertaining, even when she’s being outrageous. Sometimes I vehemently disagree with her, other times I think she’s right on target.

But she earns an extra gold star from me for not only retracting one egregious misstatement of fact, but going into significant detail as to how she was wrong, and apologizing profoundly for same. Nicely done, Molly. Would that more of your colleagues (of all stripes) would do the same when warrented.