The numbers are just mind-boggling: More than 80 in the Nice truck attack. 44 dead in the Istanbul airport blast. 32 in the Brussels bombings. 49 in Orlando, in the deadliest mass shooting in US ...

I am done with you, you wretched horror of a year. Some six weeks may remain on your calendar, but that is a formality. I am checked out until I can turn the page on Jan. 1, 2017. You are so bad, 2016 ...

Since the end of our relationship is now in sight and the time for vengeful reflection is upon us, I thought I’d sit down and write you a letter. I want to make sure we get it all out in the open and ...