She reads four to eight newspapers a day. Give her half a chance and she'll rattle off the exact numbers of congressional votes from years past until your ears bleed. She rails against the cruelty of welfare reform, the meanness of Howard Stern and the unscrupulous strategies of Newt Gingrich. She also writes about food fetishes in Berkeley, Calif., the Republic of Texas movement and the death of her mother. Ivins, an intense woman with a habit of whispering her most emphatic words, spoke to Salon in our offices in San Francisco between sips of black coffee and puffs on verboten cigarettes.
Nobody wants to talk about anything but the president's dick.
Right now we have a country that's fixated on one story. And I can't get them off it. The interesting thing is that I don't think that the public is interested at all. The only people who have kept their heads are the American people. They're not happy that the president of the United States may have a serious zipper problem.