Dave Barry
Dave Barry
David McAlister "Dave" Barryis a Pulitzer Prize winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 July 1947
CityArmonk, NY
CountryUnited States of America
real kids self
It's a real smug self-righteous punk kid saying nobody has the right to tell him what to do and how dare you put a sign up saying that I can't go on your property?
games chess-pieces literature
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
movie sports art
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
talking people assuming
I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.
dog events giants
Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.
literature enough bigs
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
golf hitting balls
For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
dog sex thinking
I wrote about why I didn't think libertarians are really doing this kind of thing so that they can have sex with dogs. I discussed some of the reasons that a person might want to live out of the control of our federal, state, local, and every other form of government. Actually, I don't think I even called myself a libertarian . I think Tom Shroder identified me as one.
funny humorous america
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
jobs writing thinking
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
objectivity literature littles
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
country good-friend floating
John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.
travel journey camping
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
oregon gdp literature
Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.