Some of you probably hated her anyway, but she was a hero of mine, as a writer/humorist, and as a courageous and unapologetic advocate of liberal values.
She wrote lots, but I'll always remember her first for one particularly satisfying barb, as described here by the NYT: "After Patrick J. Buchanan, as a conservative candidate for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National Convention that America was engaged in a cultural war, she said his speech 'probably sounded better in the original German.'"
Only 62-- she should have had lots more words ahead of her. Very sad. R.I.P.
I alway enjoyed her columns. Some of that was because I agreed with her most all of the time, but part of it was because she was an excellent and witty writer.
