Dave Barry

Here, as promised last week, is the second and final part of my report on the fact-finding mission I took to the Netherlands this summer to increase international understanding, a...

As a molder of public opinion, I regularly go on fact-finding missions to foreign countries located outside of the United States. I then report my findings to you in the...

The U.S. presidential election is a scant 14 months away, and you can feel the excitement building across the nation, all the way from Washington, D.C., to the immediate suburbs...

If there's one ideal that unites all Americans, it's the belief that every single one of us, regardless of ethnic background, is fat. It was not always this way. There...

Everybody--by which I mean "not you"--is getting rich off the Internet. We are constantly seeing stories in the media about young Internet entrepreneurs who look like they should be mowing...

As a noted film critic, I assume that you are eager to read my impressions of "Eyes Wide Shut," the controversial, much-discussed final film in the "oeuvre" of Stanley Kubrick,...

Most Americans are pitifully ignorant of geography. This was clearly demonstrated recently when the Gallup Organization sent its pollsters to Chicago to ask randomly selected residents if they could name...

I was getting ready to board an early American Airlines flight out of Miami, and they announced that it was going to be "bistro service." "Please pick up your `bistro'...

If there's one question that troubles every thinking person, it's this: Does cheating go on in professional wrestling? In an effort to find an answer, I recently attended a tournament...

The only time I got really scared was when the mob surrounded me and began beating on my head. Fortunately, it was not my usual head: It was the head...