When Texas liberals were fun
Neither piece of news should have come as a shock. Harithas was 90, and the Observer, bless its lefty soul, has been broke for most of the 68 years of its existence. A liberal magazine requires both liberals and literacy, and Texas neverBut here’s what rocked me: Harithas and the Observer both stood for a kind of Texas liberalism that I miss. While they were raising hell, they had fun.
After that, Harithas lay low. First he fasted, for a life-threatening 42 days. Then he just stayed out of the public eye. Friends would later talkThen, around 2000, he re-emerged. His wife, Ann, was an heir to the O'Connor oil-and-ranching fortune.
The Observer, Ivins wrote, was “so poor that the business manager slept under the Addressograph and the reporters stole pencils from the governor’s office. For six years I lived below the poverty level and had more fun than the law allows.” Ivins reveled in the juice and life. She had a front-row seat, for instance, when Houston’s Mickey Leland became “one of the first blacks ever elected out of a black district without ever having to get white folks’ permission to run at-large. He showed up wearing an Afro and dashikis, and the Bubbas thought he was some kind of freak-radical Black Panther, and it meant the end of the world was at hand.
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