» Dave Barry http://mayorawesome.com Sun, 20 May 2012 18:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dave Barry’s Year in review 2008 http://mayorawesome.com/2008/12/27/dave-barrys-year-in-review-2008/ http://mayorawesome.com/2008/12/27/dave-barrys-year-in-review-2008/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:11:11 +0000 Mayor Awesome http://mayorawesome.com/?p=11 I’ve always been a big fan of Dave Barry, especially for use in the bathroom. The Washington Post printed his year in review. Here’s a snip:

How weird a year was it? Here’s how weird:

  • O.J. actually got convicted of something.
  • Gasoline hit $4 a gallon — and those were the good times.
  • On several occasions, “Saturday Night Live” was funny.
  • There were a few days there in October when you could not completely rule out the possibility that the next Treasury secretary would be Joe the Plumber.
  • Finally, and most weirdly, for the first time in history, the voters elected a president who — despite the skeptics who said such a thing would never happen in the United States — was neither a Bush nor a Clinton.

Read the whole article here.

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