Dave Barry

It was not a good year for humanity. And not just because of AI and pickleball.

2022 had some positives. Which is not to say that it was good. In fact it was the opposite of good, specifically, bad.

Columnist Dave Barry looks back at the 2021 headlines.

In the past, writing these annual reviews, we have said harsh things about previous years. We owe those years an apology.

It was a year so eventful that every time another asteroid whizzed past the Earth, barely avoiding a collision that would have destroyed human civilization, we were not 100% certain it was good news.

This guide features a very special kind of gift — the kind that, when you give it to a person, causes that person to sincerely wonder what he or she ever did to you.

Is there anything good we can say about 2018? Only this: It got us out of 2017. But even that didn’t work out as we hoped.

A scandal has erupted in London in the most cutthroat and vicious of all Olympic sports, a sport whose very name contains the word "bad."