Dave Barry writes: “As the year wore on, frustration finally boiled over in the form of the Occupy Various Random Spaces movement, wherein people who were sick and tired of a lot of stuff finally got off their butts and started working for meaningful change via direct action in the form of sitting around and forming multiple committees and drumming and not directly issuing any specific demands but definitely having a lot of strongly held views for and against a wide variety of things. Incredibly, even this did not bring about meaningful change. The economy remained wretched, especially unemployment, which got so bad that many Americans gave up even trying to work. Congress, for example.”
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![At the end of each year, humor writer Dave Barry sums up what the last 12 months brought us. Looking back to review 2011, he says: “It was the kind of year that made a person look back fondly on the gulf oil spill. Granted, the oil spill was bad. But it did not result in a high-decibel, weeks-long national conversation about a bulge in a congressman’s underpants. Which is exactly what we had in the Festival of Sleaze that was 2011 ... [But] what made it truly awful was the economy, which, for what felt like the 17th straight year, continued to stagger around like a zombie on crack.](/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/12/30/Magazine/Images/dave-barry-yir-2011-toc.jpg)
![Writes Barry: “On Broadway, the troubled musical ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ suffers a setback when three actors and 11 audience members are injured in what the producers describe as a ‘catastrophic spandex failure’ [and] four orchestra musicians are killed by what producers describe as a ‘freak clarinet accident.’ “](/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/12/30/Magazine/Images/dave-barry-yir-spiderman.jpg)
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