Dave Barry's 2010 in Review

Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT " The perfect symbol for the awfulness of 2010 was the BP oil spill, which oozed up from the depths and spread, totally out of control, like some kind of hideous uncontrollable metaphor. (Or, Jersey Shore.) The scariest thing about the spill was, nobody in charge seemed to know what to do about it. Time and again, top political leaders personally flew down to the Gulf of Mexico to look at the situation first-hand and hold press availabilities. And yet somehow, despite these efforts, the oil continued to leak. This forced us to face the disturbing truth that even top policy thinkers with postgraduate degrees from Harvard University — Harvard University! — could not stop it." Read the column at: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/01/v-print/1992746/dave-barrys-2010-year-in-review.html#ixzz19v6wWhAc