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When Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. government has been gathering data on Americans' e-mails, texts and phone calls, Americans decided that getting upset about it was too much work. Cruise-ship passengers, not the hardest-working lot in the best of times, handled their five days stuck on the Carnival Triumph without power by urinating in the hallways.
Egypt decided that democracy was too much work. Detroit decided that being a city was too much work and declared bankruptcy. The ground in Florida decided that it took too much effort to stay up and sank into giant holes. Trayvon Martin's jury decided that justice was too hard, and George Zimmerman decided that not getting arrested again this year was too hard. Lance Armstrong, a man famous for struggling against great odds (Cancer! Europeans! Mountains! His personality!) gave up the ruse and told Oprah he cheated. Walter White gave up selling meth. The only person who tried too hard this year was Miley Cyrus.
During all this laziness, the stock market soared, unemployment went down, the deficit was reduced, the Middle East became a little more stable and a baby was apparently cured of AIDS. Maybe for 2014, we should just take a nice, long nap. I'm sure when we wake up, someone will have fixed that website.