Dave Barry's year in review (Featured)

It was a year that strode boldly into the stall of human events and took a wide stance astride the porcelain bowl of history.

It was year in which roughly 17,000 leading presidential contenders, plus of course Dennis Kucinich, held roughly 63,000 debates, during which they spewed out roughly 153 trillion words; and yet the only truly memorable phrase emitted in any political context was ``Don't tase me, bro!''

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4.9
by Dale Penn - Dec. 30, 2007

Using his own unique form of satire, Dave Barry sums up 2007 shedding light heartedness. Provides better understanding of the entire Alberto Gonzales matter using anagram theory.

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by Douglas Hord - Dec. 30, 2007
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by Jim Lang - Dec. 30, 2007

For the most part, a great laugh at ourselves.

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by Leo Romero - Dec. 30, 2007
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by Juliet Sallette - Dec. 30, 2007
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Dec. 31, 2007

It's interesting that satire is better journalism than much of the journalism we read.

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by Fabrice Florin - Dec. 30, 2007
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by Jay Pocius - Jan. 1, 2008
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by Harry A Farr - Jan. 3, 2008
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by Patrick Walsh - Dec. 30, 2007

So well writen and researched it should be posted in every washroom in Washington.. Send him north.. We could use him in Canada

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by Joyce Hawes - Dec. 31, 2007
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by Bill Ryan - Dec. 30, 2007
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