Dave Barry's year in review: 2009

Miami Herald "In the Middle East, U.N. nuclear inspectors become suspicious when Iran attempts to ship to Israel, via UPS, a large crate labeled ``HARMLESS ITEMS -- DELIVER BEFORE TIMER REACHES 00:00.'' There are other troubling year-end developments: • In a setback for U.S. interests in Central America, voters in Honduras elect, as their new president, Rod Blagojevich. • The International Space Station is taken over by Somali pirates. • In sports, roughly 40 percent of the U.S. bimbo population announces that it has at one time or another hiked the Appalachian Trail with Tiger Woods."