Dave Barry

Thanksgiving is a time of traditions, and there is no tradition more meaningful than the annual U.S. Department of Agriculture warning about fatal food-dwelling bacteria. This year, I'm pleased to...

Recently, a reader named Jim Cornell sent me a postcard with a picture of insects on it, posing an interesting question. (No, the insects were not posing a question. As...

It's time once again for our popular consumer health feature, "You Should Be More Nervous." Today we're going to address an alarming new trend, even scarier in some ways than...

So I went to the U.S. Open tennis tournament, which is a big tennis event in New York City, which, by the way, has gotten much nicer. I say this...

I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making...

Today's topic is: Living Smart What do I mean by "living smart"? Let's look at a simple example: Suppose that two people-call them Person A and Person B-are late for...

Recently, when I was having a hamburger at an outdoor restaurant, two guys started up their Harley-Davidson motorcycles, parked maybe 25 feet from me. Naturally, being Harley guys, these were...

This summer, while drinking a frozen drink on the island of Lanai, in Hawaii, I came up with a plan for saving the democratic process, if anybody still wants to....

So I turned on my car radio, and the first thing I heard was the Shouting Car-Dealership Jerk. You know the one I mean. He sounds like this: "BELOW DEALER...

We here at the Bureau of Medical Alarm hope you had a restful, carefree, fun-filled summer. But before you get back into "the swing of things" for fall, we'd like...