All year long, humorist Dave Barry keeps careful notes about what noteworthy events happen each month. At the end of the year, he summarizes the year in an article widely picked up by newspapers every where.
In the future, Americans – assuming there are any left – will look back at 2016 and remark: “What the hell?”
They will have a point. Over the past few decades, we here at the Year in Review have reviewed some pretty disturbing years. For example, there was 2000, when the outcome of a presidential election was decided by a tiny group of deeply confused Florida residents who had apparently attempted to vote by chewing on their ballots.
Then there was 2003, when a person named “Paris Hilton” suddenly became a major international superstar, despite possessing a level of discernible talent so low as to make the Kardashians look like the Jackson 5.
There was 2006, when the vice president of the United States, who claimed he was attempting to bring down a suspected quail, shot a 78-year-old man in the face, only to be exonerated after an investigation revealed that the victim was an attorney.
And, perhaps most inexplicable of all, there was 2007, when millions of people voluntarily installed Windows Vista.
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