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                        There's just no explaining 2014
                                        
> **It was a year of mysteries.** To list some of the more baffling ones:
> 
> A huge airliner simply vanished [1], and to this day nobody has any idea
> what happened to it, despite literally thousands of hours of intensive
> speculation on CNN.
> 
> Millions of Americans suddenly decided to make videos of themselves having
> ice water [2] poured on their heads. Remember? There were rumors that this
> had something to do with charity, but for most of us, the connection was
> never clear. All we knew was that, for a while there, every time we turned
> on the TV, there was a local newscaster or Gwyneth Paltrow [3] or Kermit
> the Frog [4] or some random individual soaking wet and shivering. This
> mysterious phenomenon ended as suddenly as it started, but not before
> uncounted trillions of American brain cells died of frostbite.
> 
> An intruder jumped [5] the White House fence and, inexplicably, managed to
> run [6] into the White House through the unlocked front door. Most of us
> had assumed that anybody attempting this would instantly be converted to a
> bullet-ridden pile of smoking carbon by snipers, lasers, drones, ninjas,
> etc., but it turned out that, for some mysterious reason, the White House
> had effectively the same level of anti-penetration security as a Dunkin’
> Donuts.
> 
> LeBron James deliberately moved to Cleveland [7].
> 
> Of course not everything that happened in 2014 was mysterious. Some
> developments—ISIS [8], Ebola [9], the song “Happy [10]” were simply bad.
> 

Via Instapundit [11], “Dave Barry's Year in Review: There's just no
explaining 2014 | The Washington Post [12]”

Dave Barry sums up 2014 better than anyone else can. So what if this is a bit
late (my posting it here, not when Dave Barry wrote it)? I'm still trying to
get a hang of 2015, which might not happen until 2016 comes rolling around … 

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/malaysia-loses-
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOIFN05rWuY
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmax3yEZX58
[5] http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-intruder-was-
[6] http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-fence-jumper-made-
[7] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/07/11/lebron-
[8] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/06/10/isis-the
[9] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/10/04/how-ebola-sped-
[10] http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/pharrell-keeps-it-
[11] http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/200488/
[12] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/12/28/davebarry-

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