[Pokey78]

It might be exacerbated by the stress I feel when I think of all the money I've spent on lavishing boyfriends with presents over the years, guys who are now living with other women who are enjoying my lovingly picked out presents which I'm no doubt still paying for in credit card interest charges.

[arasina]

I have to say I actually agree with her on some points. I can't stand all the schlock that Christmas has become and since I already have an immense dislike for shopping December becomes almost unbearable. I don't like stuffed animals and little knick-knacks dressed in cutesy outfits either. (Yeah, I know. I'm a real sweetheart.) She goes too far, however, when she includes It's A Wonderful Life in her diatribe.

[RightOnline]

OK OK......I'll say it.

What a pathetic bitch.

[PhilDragoo]

So now, on top of all the stress related to having a president and vice president who scared us to death about terrorists to get re-elected, I have to be stressed about the fact that my holiday stress might cause me to turn into an old bat - instantly, just like it happened in Grimm's fairy tales, when a girl would be cursed and suddenly become a crone.

MoDo is in double denial: terrorists would be back in NYC if we weren't wasting them in Fallujah, and secondly, you already are an old bat.

Fitting that the Old Gray Whore features the Old Gray Therapy Patient, the two growing older, more irrelevant, more bitter.

[KingNo155]

That line says it all...her money can't buy love and her vemon won't buy anything else.

[lentulusgracchus]

"It might be exacerbated by the stress I feel when I think of all the money I've spent on lavishing boyfriends with presents over the years, guys who are now living with other women who are enjoying my lovingly picked out presents which I'm no doubt still paying for in credit card interest charges."

Whoooaaaa! -- gettin' kinda real there, Maureen!

Wow -- wonder if Catherine Zeta-Jones read Dowd's column?

[xp38]

A minor technical question. In the event of a Douglas/Zeta Jones divorce split what will the status of the Dowd/CZJ rule be?

[Aquinasfan]

"You're weird," my mom says.

Mother knows best.

[YaYa123]

I think this column (along with her recent talk show appearances), proves Maureen Dowd is readying herself to take over the Andy Rooney Bah Humbug slot on 60 Minutes. She's got the snarling whine down pat! But I gotta hand it to Maureen, she's got a way with words. Did anyone not actually "hear" the "slasher movie staccato" as they read that sentence?

"aprons to be sashed and potatoes to be mashed" ring ding a ling.. pure poetic genius! And I love Maureen equating her sister being eaten like pudding, to Bush's non-existent terrorist threat, to long lost boyfriends who dumped her. For Maureen, it's not a wonderful life at all...poor baby..but she bravely shares her seasonal gloomy doom with readers.

[Aquinasfan]

I've given a lot of thought to why others' season of joy is my season of doom - besides the obvious fact that yuppies have drenched the holidays in ever more absurd levels of consumerism...

It might be exacerbated by the stress I feel when I think of all the money I've spent on lavishing boyfriends with presents over the years, guys who are now living with other women who are enjoying my lovingly picked out presents which I'm no doubt still paying for in credit card interest charges.

Miss Dowd, meet Mr. Contradiction.

And Maureen, why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free?

[TexasCajun]

Everyone knows she hates Christians!

She is Christophobic!

It must really suck to be an unhappy, depressed, mean, ugly, pessimistic, atheist hater of all that are too stupid to believe in the liberals' rant of a godless, hopeless, domed American, doomed Mother Earth!

[Crackhead Willie]

What a pathetic individual. I think if I was that miseriable I would kill myself.

[nutmeg]

Wow... don't miss this priceless tirade by angry, bitter Mo Dowd!

Excerpts:

I've never said this out loud before, but I can't stand Christmas...

It might be exacerbated by the stress I feel when I think of all the money I've spent on lavishing boyfriends with presents over the years, guys who are now living with other women who are enjoying my lovingly picked out presents which I'm no doubt still paying for in credit card interest charges.

[mewzilla]

Maureen Dowd is a female Jacob Marley.

[nutmeg]

Wow... don't miss this priceless tirade by angry, bitter Mo Dowd!

Excerpts:

I've never said this out loud before, but I can't stand Christmas...

It might be exacerbated by the stress I feel when I think of all the money I've spent on lavishing boyfriends with presents over the years, guys who are now living with other women who are enjoying my lovingly picked out presents which I'm no doubt still paying for in credit card interest charges.

[xsmommy]

this is very self revealing on Mo's part. obviously she is bitter old spinster shrew with no kids to have shared christmas joy with and it is eating her alive that the Douglas family is all curled up together with their eggnog and designer stockings enjoying santa and gifts.

[Polyxene]

NAG Hag with a terminal case of PEST!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

"You're weird," my mom says.

Her mom has it nailed.

[dead]

[Hatteras]

"I have to be stressed about the fact that my holiday stress might cause me to turn into an old bat - instantly,..."

Got some bad news for you Mo, too late, have you looked in the mirror lately?

[Not A Snowbird]

Barking moonbat alert! This woman has serious issues.