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<title><![CDATA[Dave Barry - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16206.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Dave Barry]]></description><category domain="16206">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Modern Technology Is Truly a Miracle]]></title>
							<link>https://davebarry.substack.com/p/modern-technology</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Modern technology is truly a miracle. A hundred years ago, if you wanted to travel from New York City to Chicago, the fastest way was by train, which took a minimum of 20 hours. Whereas today, thanks to technology, you can simply go to an airport, and in less than three hours you will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I'm Definitely Not Writing About Explosive Diarrhea]]></title>
							<link>https://davebarry.substack.com/p/todays-topic</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That was not originally going to be my topic. Originally my topic was going to be explosive diarrhea, which I apologize for even mentioning, but it has been in the news a LOT. Explosive diarrhea is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' everywhere. You can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t escape it! (By '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'it,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I mean the topic of explosive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Nation Full of Waffle Houses--Also, a Mystery Log]]></title>
							<link>https://davebarry.substack.com/p/america</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Also, a Mystery Log.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mission: Highly Improbable]]></title>
							<link>https://davebarry.substack.com/p/mission-highly-improbable</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the movie opens, a private jet owned by a shadowy organization is flying over an active volcano. Inside the cabin, Tom Cruise is lying on the floor with a tranquilizer dart sticking into his neck. He is handcuffed, and his entire body is tightly bound by steel chains attached to heavy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2024 Was Exciting - And By 'Exciting,' We Mean 'Stupid']]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dave-barry-review-2024-exciting-090000845.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s start with the art world, which over the centuries has given humanity so many beautiful, timeless masterpieces. This year, the biggest story involving art, by far, was that a cryptocurrency businessman paid $6.2 million at a Sotheby'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s auction for...A banana.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2023: The Year in Review]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/dave-barry-s-2023-year-in-review/ar-AA1mghgi</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a year of reckoning, a year in which humanity finally began to understand that it faces an existential threat, a threat unlike any we have ever faced before, a threat that will wreak havoc on our fragile planet if we fail to stop it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and it may already be too late.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2022 Year in Review: It Could Have Been Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/dave-barry-s-2022-year-in-review/ar-AA15DUnS</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best thing we can say about 2022 is: It could have been worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wait, Wasn&rsquo;t 2021 Supposed To Be Better Than 2020?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article256603076.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is there anything positive we can say about 2021? Yes. We can say that it was marginally better than 2020. Granted, this is not high praise. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s like saying that somebody is marginally nicer than Hitler. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s something.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2020 Was a Year of Nonstop Awfulness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article247890015.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're trying to think of something nice to say about 2020.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bandannas &amp; Spatulas: My COVID Quarantine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241785841.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On day 43,000 of sheltering in place, I decided to make a face mask.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2019 Was an 'Eventful' (Bad) Year]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article238523668.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Humorist Dave Barry recaps 2019 in his latest year in review: the Mueller report, President Donald Trump's impeachment, the Democratic presidential candidates, Jeffrey Epstein, and Brexit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There Anything Good We Can Say About 2018?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article223204095.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Humorist Dave Barry sums up 2018 in his latest year in review: More talk of Russians and the Mueller probe, more semiliterate tweets from President Trump about fake news, and the debut of Dr. Pimple Popper.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2017 Year in Review: Did That Really Happen?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article192007484.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dave Barry recaps 2017 by asking, Did that really happen? in his annual Year in Review.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2017 Holiday Gift Guide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article186107068.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dave Barry shares his 2017 Holiday Gift Guide. Christmas presents include gag gifts like a Ken doll with a man bun, a Barry Manilow coloring book and Star Wars BBQ tongs. What will Santa Claus bring you?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2016 Holiday Gift Guide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article118002173.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dave Barry shares his 2016 Holiday Gift Guide. Christmas presents include gag gifts like a cockroach pool float, Poop Like a Champion Cereal, and the Oktoberfist Drinking Glove. What will Santa Claus bring you?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was 2015 the Worst Year Ever? Yes, It Was]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article51119880.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we are accused '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' believe it or not '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' of being overly negative in our annual Year in Review. Critics say we ignore the many positive events in a given year and focus instead on the stupid, the tragic, the evil, the disgusting, the Kardashians.OK, critics: We have heard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Greatest (Party) Generation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/dave-barry-the-greatest-party-generation-1424965599?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Looking back, I think my parents had more fun than I did.That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not how it was supposed to be. My parents belonged to the Greatest Generation; they grew up in hard times. My mom was born in Colorado in an actual sod hut, which is the kind of structure you see in old black-and-white...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2014: The Year in Review]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article4940373.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2014 Holiday Gift Guide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article4053889.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[2013, the Year of the Zombies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/dave-barrys-review-of-2013-the-year-of-the-zombies/2013/12/20/c7cfa5fe-5dc2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the Year of the Zombies. Not in the sense of most of humanity dying from a horrible plague and then reanimating as mindless flesh-eating ghouls. No, it was much worse than that. Because as bad as a zombie apocalypse would be, at least it wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t involve the resurrection of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2011 Festival of Sleaze]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/31/2568230/dave-barrys-2011-year-in-review.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the kind of year that made a person look back fondly on the Gulf oil spill.Granted, the oil spill was bad. But it did not result in a high-decibel, weeks-long national conversation about a bulge in a congressman'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s underpants. Which is exactly what we had in the Festival of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Year in Review]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121901343.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Barry</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Convention]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/gp_20080825_7457.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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