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Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald. Dave Barry's Colonoscopy Journal: > > I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis . Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, "HE'S...

Many of you have commented on how does one merit a Christmas card from the White House. Some of you have commened upon how do you get involved in the campaign. A few of FR readers have commented upon you lack of enthusiasm for the candidates we have. Let me report my experience after eight and a half hours in the hot Missouri sun from one of the greatest outpourings of support for the GOP I have witnessed in approximately 50 years of being involved in politics. I know many who might comment that I was a slacker for the...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A lot of people don't believe it, but the truth is that I really don't know whom I'm going to vote for this November. It won't be Barack Obama -- he and I simply disagree on too many fundamental issues -- but it also may not be John McCain.

Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.

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