(2016: when men were women and burritos were drug mules)

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Well, my fellow Americans, we did it again. It’s January 2017. We made it…we survived another odd year. How odd? Here’s how odd: each year, the folks that publish the Merriam-Webster dictionary choose a word of the year, after reviewing online searches, pondering media usage and, I’m guessing, sampling several beers. And Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2016?

Surreal.

There were several events during the last year that...