Dave Barry: 2010 in Review

Dave Barry: 2010 in Review:

A rather humorous look back at 2010, month by month. From July:

Just when all appears to be lost, BP announces that it has stopped the leak, using a 75-ton cap and what a company spokesperson describes as 'a truly heroic manatee named Wendell.' Although oil is no longer leaking, much damage has been done, so this important story remains the focus of the nation's attention for nearly 45 minutes, after which the nation's attention shifts to Lindsay Lohan.

From October:

In the month's most dramatic story, the 33 trapped Chilean miners are all brought safely to the surface, only to be sent right back down because they failed to bring up any copper — which, as the mining company points out, 'was the whole point of sending them down there in the first place.'

And November:

In sports, Obama's upper lip is injured in a basketball game when he is hit in the mouth by an elbow believed to have been thrown by North Korea.