The year in review: From Pelosi to Pitt, perverts to Paris, Dave Barry offers a last laugh

Miami Herald ^ | Dec. 31, 2006 | Dave Barry

[nuconvert]

Happy New Year! pong

[betsyross1776]

YOU got to admit , it has been a wild year. Full 0f ups and downs, good and bad. But we are all still here loyal as ever ready for the New Year and the new battle. Do the libs really think they can keep what they got? Now it is their turn in the hot seat and the seat is going to get hotter ever minute the clock ticks. Don't worry they will screw up they always do. Happy New Year and to the libs good luck in the New Year , you will need it because we will be watching. With us around who needs the commie press anyway!

[gcruse]

Dave Barry is turning into Art Buchwald, a writer you read while longing for him to be edgy-funny, finally reconciling yourself to slap-stick. Barry's quasihumor gets me wondering why Scott Adams started pulling his punches in Dilbert. Happily, we'll always have Mark Steyn, cross your fingers.

[nothingnew]

I agree. His early stuff was much better than this stuff. I think he realized it aways back, and writes once in awhile to try and keep his following happy. Poor attempt in my very humble opinion.

FMCDH(BITS)

[nothingnew]

Also, gcruse, he does a much better job not writing about "hot button" world affairs.......stick to schtick, I say...

FMCDH(BITS)

[Cicero]

Not quite his best, but some good stuff. I liked the last paragraph before the burp.

[sodpoodle]

Barry Barry good!

Happy 2007!

Thanks for a great post - I read it all;)

[xjcsa]

In other political developments, Sen. Barack Obama, looking back on a career in the U.S. Senate that spans nearly 20 months, allows as how he might be ready to move on to the presidency. Obamamania sweeps the nation as millions of voters find themselves deeply impressed by Obama's views, and the fact that he was on Oprah. In a gracious gesture from a potential 2008 rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton sends Obama a good-luck card, which is stapled to the head of a horse.

That's about right.

[Slings and Arrows]

Vice President Dick Cheney, attempting to bring down a quail with a shotgun, shoots attorney Harry Whittington. Local authorities rule the shooting was an accident, noting that if the vice president was going to intentionally shoot somebody, it would be Nancy Pelosi.

[pissant]

Crappy New Year!

[pissant]

I still think you and Sully are evil twins.

[Slings and Arrows]

When you toast in the new year, you don't have to do it once for each time zone.

[pissant]

Yes I do!

[Safetgiver]

Did anything good happen in 2006? Let me think.....My stocks were up 20%. WoooHooo.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

One thing I like about Dave Barry is that he seems to be politically even-handed in his satire. He's probably a lib like most people in the business, but at least tries to take swipes at both sides.

[YouGoTexasGirl]

Happy New Year! We read this aloud last night at our NYE party and just cracked up. Maybe some of the earlier posters should have had a good meal with good friends and a couple of glasses of cheap wine before reading this. What a way to enter the new year- with humor to LOL!

[phantomworker]

This was the year in which there came to be essentially no difference between the treatment of maximum-security-prison inmates and the treatment of commercial-airline passengers.

Good one. LOL

[Slings and Arrows]

That one's too true for comfort.

[JRios1968]

Speaking of competition, in . . .

JUNE

. . . the big sports story is the start of the World Cup tournament, with U.S. fans hopeful that our players have finally caught up with the rest of the world in soccer. The American team arrives in Italy brimming with confidence, only to be informed that the tournament is being held in Germany. Undaunted, the team boards a train for Geneva, with the coach promising that ``we will score many touchdowns.''

That sounds about right...and they couldn't even score. Aren't we all proud?