Dave Barry

So I was getting on a plane in Seattle, and I was feeling a touch nervous because that very morning a plane was forced to make an emergency landing at...

Recently, like many of you, I watched with breathless excitement as the Hubble Space Telescope, which cost more than a billion dollars and took more than 10 years to build,...

WE WANTED TO HAVE A relaxing family vacation, so we got together with two other families and rented a sailboat in the Virgin Islands. There is nothing as relaxing as...

It`s time for an update on the ongoing effort by our elected life forms in Washington, D.C., to eliminate this pesky federal budget deficit. And today we have some exciting...

THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL Summer Vacation Adventure is: preparation. For example, if you`re planning a trip to Europe to visit historic sites such as the Hunchback of Notre Dame...

RECENTLY I`VE BEEN READING horror novels at bedtime. I`m talking about those paperbacks with names like ''The Brainsucker,'' full of scenes like this: ''As Marge stepped through the doorway into...

Here at the Exploding Animal Research Institute we have received two very alarming news items that we are passing along today in the hopes that you, the generalized public, will...

Recently I got a long letter from Bob Dole. Bob, of course, is a leading Senate Republican who not only heads the Very Flat Corn-Infested States Caucus but also periodically...

We taxpayers hear too many stories about the stupid things that the federal government does with our money, such as letting Congress get ahold of it or attempting to orbit...

People frequently ask me, ''Dave, what has gone wrong with America, anyways?'' And I always reply: ''What has gone wrong is that over in Germany and Japan, people are interested...