Posts Tagged ‘Sez I To Myself’

Drowning in Sweetness

Written by admin on October 20, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Sugar should be labeled a controlled substance By Malachy McCourt When I was running for governor on the Green Party ticket, I advocated for a number of quality of life improvements. One of those improvements was to place a dollar tax on every stick of chewing gum. Then cut the idiotic spitting of that disgusting
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More than One Type of Blood Sucker

Written by admin on September 22, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Bedbugs have a lot in common with their Tea Party brethren By Malachy McCourt Concomitant with the rise of the Tea Party, we are now infested with the rise of that disgusting horror known as the bedbug. Some people would rather deal with al-Qaeda than the newest threat to our city. Very little is known
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Alcoholism, Unmasked

Written by admin on March 4, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Some people don’t get it, even columnists in these papers. Alcoholism is a disease, not a failure of will power, a character defect, a childish indulgence or a willful abdication of responsibility. Brewers, distillers and righteous columnists piously preach about drinking responsibly. Alcoholics cannot drink alcohol responsibly, or at all. That would be akin to
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’Tis Not the Season

Written by admin on January 21, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT

Just when you thought you were done with Christmas, here I come with more stuff on it. As we know, it’s a season fraught with anxiety, depression, anger and domestic disharmony, all despite the injunctions of various clergy that it is the season of peace, tranquility and the sharing of joy and of song. The
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Woods’ Woes

Written by admin on January 8, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

The hoi polloi of America are apt to get their knickers in a knot when the known, the popular, the celebrity, the righteous and the religious indulge in a trifle of sexual hanky-panky. The latest laddie caught in the trap is none other than Tiger Woods, a golfer who apparently puts something other than balls
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Count on It

Written by admin on November 11, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

He has light-colored hair, bluish eyes, a healthy complexion and stands about 5’10”. As he perambulates about the country, he has a pleasant look on his genial face. He is self-employed, yet he is one of the most watched men in these United States of America. What, you may ask, does he do that warrants
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Healing at Helen Hayes

Written by admin on October 9, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

There I was at the Vermont Stage Co. doing the play Prelude to a Kiss when someone sent me the theatrical greeting, “Break a leg,” which I did. I broke the limb in the bathroom of the hotel I was staying at and had to drop out of the play. Diana, my spouse and friend,
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A LETTER TO OBAMA

Written by admin on January 29, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Dear Citizen Obama, ’Twas not too long ago you were roaming the country fearlessly expounding on the wrongs wrought by the right and telling all within earshot what you were going to do to restore our country to its honorable place among the nations of this earth. At least some of the populace voted for
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SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

For the first time since the creation of the world, the sun rose on the United States of America at night. That was the triumphant night of Nov. 4, when despite the desperate prayers of flocks of evangelical Christians, God made Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, the 44th president of this benighted country. Eight
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INEXPERIENCE ALL AROUND

Written by admin on October 23, 2008. Posted in Opinion and Column

To the Editor: Malachy McCourt mocks Sarah Palin for implying that she is an expert on Russie because Alaska is near that country (“Here Come the Russians,” Oct. 9). However, is that any different than Obama supporters claiming that Obama is an expert in foreign affairs because he spent four years of his childhood in Indonesia?
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