APRIL’S BEEN CRUEL AGAIN
It's time for my annual Tax Guide, which takes you step-by-step through the federal filing process, from obtaining the proper tax forms all the way to getting that desirable upper...
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CONSENSUS: IT ADDS UP
Unless you are hiding in a drainpipe, by now you should have received your census questionnaire from the federal government. The census is a federal tradition dating back to 1790,...
ONE OF LIFE’S LITTLE SURPRISES
Today, I'd like to share with you my thoughts on the presidential campaign. Unfortunately, I don't have any, because my wife and I just had a baby. The birth went...
ANATOMY OF A JOKE
Today's topic was suggested by a reader named Richard from El Paso, Texas, who wrote a letter asking: "How do you obtain a sense of humor? I am more seriously...
A SECOND MAINE CHANCE
It was a Thursday evening when I got a chilling message from my office at The Miami Herald: Somebody had sent me a live Maine lobster. It was meant as...
DAVE’S FIELD OF NIGHTMARES
When I was a boy, playing Little League baseball, I dreamed--as most boys did back then--of someday getting a call from the Major Leagues. "Son," I dreamed the Major Leagues...
LEFT TO OUR OWN DEVICES . . .
Recently The Washington Post printed an article explaining how the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane. Of course they don't SAY they want to drive us insane. What they...
HITCHHIKING ON TOBACCO ROAD
Just when you think the War on Smoking cannot possibly get any more entertaining, up pops a new batch of lawyers to save the day. Before I tell you about...
WHO WANTS TO BE A MORON?
REGIS PHILBIN: Welcome to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," the dramatic hit quiz show that has all America on the edge of its seat wondering how, exactly, I became...
WHY-OH-WHY-OH-WHY-OH . . .
We have some important news for those of you who have been harboring an urge to eat poinsettias. This news comes from an article in the Dec. 5, 1999, edition...