Dave Barry

Disaster movies are back. I watched one on TV, about asteroids slamming into the Earth and causing a devastating worldwide epidemic of bad acting. Also there are two disaster movies...

It's time for my annual tax-advice column, which always draws an enthusiastic response from grateful readers. "Dear Dave," goes a typical letter. "Last year, following your advice, I was able...

When I heard that Richard Berry, the man who wrote "Louie Louie," had died, I said . . . Well, I can't tell you, in a family newspaper, what I...

Settle back, because today I'm going to tell you the dramatic true story of what happened when some Japanese researchers decided to re-create the historic discovery of the law of...

I've been thinking about how to fix Social Security. Ordinarily I don't. Ordinarily I focus on issues such as how to remove little pieces of pepperoni stuck between my teeth,...

You can say what you want about us newspaper journalists. You can say that we are atheistic, liberal, family-hating, snake-worshiping, communist perverts. You can say that we dress like the...

I got a convertible. Now I know what you're going to say. You're going to say: "Dave, you pathetic fool, you're 49 and you're having a midlife crisis. Trade that...

Two dramatic recent developments have demonstrated, once again, why these are such exciting times in which to be a vegetable. For openers, scientists have finally realized one of humanity's oldest...

Last week I promised that in today's column I would announce which commercial, according to my survey, you readers hate the most. So if you have an ounce of sense...

Whew! Do I have a headache! I think I'll take an Extra Strength Bufferin Advil Tylenol with proven cavity fighters, containing more of the lemon-freshened Borax that is recommended by...