For adding Bowie, Prince, Merle and Leonard to the afterlife house band. For that immersive multiplayer screechfest of an election season. For infecting every road in Southern Nevada with a flaming orange sepsis of construction cones. For taking Muhammad Ali. For Orlando. For Brexit. For zika. For using Las Vegas as the backdrop for the lamest of all Jason Bourne films. For a richly debated, deeply considered stadium process *bitter sarcastic laugh-choke*. For the spike in violent crimes in Las Vegas. For a summer of excessive heat warnings when everyone knows climate change isn’t real. For taking Alan Rickman, Gary Shandling and Gene Wilder, just when we needed to laugh. For stolen and vandalized public art. For killing Abe Vigoda, our last hint that humans might live forever. For not giving us a break from the !&#%@! Bundys. For Bernie chair-gate, and the social media #hellchasm it opened. For — speaking of hell chasms — the advent of paid parking on the Strip. For another Guy Fieri restaurant. For the low farce of Ryan Lochte in Brazil. For closing The Beat. For phasing Elvis out of Vegas, probably for good. For ... wait, we already mentioned the campaigns, right? Still: the !&#%@! campaigns. For this not being close to the full list of stuff 2016 should be sorry for.
So here, have a basket of adorables!