Dave Barry

As you are probably aware, especially if you are one of those people whose major appliances are still up in trees, South Florida recently experienced a bad hurricane. So today,...

Sometimes, even though we love America, with its amber waves of purple mounted majesties fruiting all over the plains, we get a little ticked off at our government. Sometimes we...

Recently I was chosen to serve as a musical consultant to the radio industry. Actually, it wasn`t the entire industry; it was a woman named Marcy, who called me up...

My son, who is 11, has started going to dance parties. Only minutes ago he was this little boy whose idea of looking really sharp was to have all the...

Once again it`s time for the popular educational feature ''Ask Mister Language Person,'' brought to you this week by Ray`s House of Fine Adverbs. Remember Ray`s motto: ''Proudly Serving You,...

On the same day that President Bush and his entourage flew down to the Earth Summit in Brazil for the purpose of not signing the biodiversity treaty, I was sprinkling...

This summer millions of Americans are traveling by air, sometimes all on the same flight. This is the result of the airfare war that occurred recently when major U.S. airlines,...

I was not particularly alarmed when I received word of the assault with the frozen kangaroo tails. Perhaps you read about this. Here is the Associated Press report, which was...

The current political situation can best be summed up by the words of Abraham Lincoln, who once said (I believe he said this on the Larry King show): ''You can...

Recently I played lead guitar in a rock band, and the rhythm guitarist was-not that I wish to drop names-Stephen King. This actually happened. It was the idea of a...