It is a measure of the year that Dave Barry is legitimately worried that handing it in this early might be unwise. I mean, there’s still a week left in the year. Anything could happen.
Anything.
Via @IMAO_, and Frank was right: it was a doozy.
Tag: year in review
Dave Barry’s The Year in Review for 2018.
No, it doesn’t count. I don’t care. It’s not; and even if it was, Dave Barry would be grandfathered in. I’m not giving up this annual pleasure.
Quote of the Day, Dave Barry Laughs So That He Will Not Cry edition.
I’m afraid to admit that Dave Barry has a point about 2015.
At this point you are saying: “Wait a minute! Surely there were some positive developments in 2015! How about the fact that, after so many years of sneering judgmentalism and divisive, overheated rhetoric, we were able to have rational, open-minded conversations about such issues as gun ownership, gay marriage, race relations and abortion, so that, as a nation, we finally began to come together and … Whoa! Sorry! Evidently I am high on narcotics.”
Yes, you are. And we intend to join you soon.
Just make sure that they’re not bath salts! No, wait, that was 2012. …No, wait: that was 2012? God, where does the time go?
#rsrh The Dave Barry 2010 year in review…
…is out, and it’s (as usual) good. A taste:
Let’s put this year into a full-body scanner and check out its junk, starting with…
JANUARY
…which begins grimly, with the pesky unemployment rate remaining high. Every poll shows that the major concerns of the American people are federal spending, the exploding deficit, and — above all — jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs: This is what the public is worried about. In a word, the big issue is: jobs. So the Obama administration, displaying the keen awareness that has become its trademark, decides to focus like a laser on: health-care reform. The centerpiece of this effort is a historic bill that will either (a) guarantee everybody excellent free health care, or (b) permit federal bureaucrats to club old people to death. Nobody knows which, because nobody has read the bill, which in printed form has the same mass as a UPS truck.
I miss his blogging.
ROI on Year One of new administration… paltry.
While this article by Doyle McManus isn’t a whitewash of the administration, it does have a few blind spots. One is below (bolding mine):
Take the $787-billion economic stimulus plan that Obama muscled through Congress as his first item of business in February. It was big, bold and ambitious — but in political terms, it’s been a failure. Most economists say the stimulus has saved at least half a million jobs, but Obama hasn’t convinced most voters that the impact is real.
At the current ratio of $1,574,000 per job ‘saved,’ one of course cannot begin to wonder why.
Still, read the whole thing.
Moe Lane