Just a reminder from South Florida

You can find Dave Barry's Look Back in Horror at 2005 on the Herald's website. A small teaser:

But whatever Scooter allegedly did, it was bad. We know this because pretty much all the news this year was bad. Oh, sure, there were some positive developments. Here is a complete list:

• In some areas, the price of gasoline, much of the time, remained below $5 a gallon.

• Nobody you know caught avian flu. Yet.

• The Yankees once again failed to win the World Series.

• Cher actually ended her farewell tour.

That was it for the good news. The rest of 2005 was a steady diet of misery, horror and despair, leavened occasionally by deep anxiety.