...for her to make it through.

FDL is in need of donations, as well.  They're doing amazing work with Libby trial right now, giving us a blow-by-blow account.  If you can afford it, read this post at FDL and dig deep:

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/01/17/a- humble-request/

That's a shame about the third time breast cancer occurrence. I love her blog. I wish I had some time to come to CT during the Lamont campaign because she was one of the people I would have liked to have met.

Her blog not only provides more of a female presence in the liberal blogosphere, but does so with energy, humor, and the will to hit back with creative insults when needed and serves as a great counterbalance to right wing talk radio.

Two things:

One, my heart goes out to Jane at this difficult and painful time, and like everyone else I wish her the very best and hope that this turns out well for her.

And two, you might want to re-word the following given the nature of this situation:

"Christy Hardin Smith has passed on..."

I think you know what I mean. Before my brain had a chance to parse this, I had a quite different, no doubt unintended interpretation.

Sad, hoping for the best, and my best thoughts are with Jane and her family.

I'm not a frequent poster at FDL, but I lurk there a lot.  Jane's and Christy's posts are generally the sort that say it all perfectly and leave me nothing to add, and I'm not the sort to say some lefty equivalent to "megadittos to all that," so I rarely post.

Jane has turned FDL into a big part of the backbone of the lefty blogosphere, and all I can say is that (a) she's in my thoughts and prayers, and I hope they're able to get out all the cancerous stuff; and (b) I've Paypalled FDL some money, and am ready to send more.

Sad news. Let's hope her treatment is a success.

I'm exhausted, and I have another post to write tonight to sum up Day Two of Libby voir dire, but even these few comments find me very moved.  Jane is everything described in the main post and more.  She's become a dear and close friend through our work together, and an inspiration.  Thanks to all of you for your support and thoughts for her.

 Jane has done a spectacular job- it's pretty astonishing how much she's been able to do in such little time. She's not a megaphone, no, but she's always made it extremely, extremely clear she would never stop listening to people just because she has attained a certain level of access.