Things to keep in mind in 2011 -- and beyond

     Everything you think you know may be wrong, but you can catch up if you're particular about where you get your information.

     Honor is less popular than, well, being popular. Popularity sells, honor almost never does. Popularity is noticed and emulated, honor, not so much. Honor is aloneness, but popularity is just plain loneliness when everybody goes home, and they will.

     Be careful about being too proud of a culture that pays one baseball player more than most school systems pay the entire teaching staff, plus administrators, janitors and cafeteria workers.

     Health care will work when the people who need it will get as much consideration as lawyers, insurance company executives, big-corporation providers and the politicians who are trying to figure out how to do it all without losing votes.

     Despite what you want to believe, judges are not chosen from the best lawyers available.

     Everybody complains about the costs of everything, but we have more disposable income than most people in the world. The real gripe of those who have a job, at least, seems to be that there is never enough for what they want, and they tend to forget to be thankful when they have enough for what they need.

     The value of freedom of the press will continue to decline the more it is abused. It's tough to be competitive and responsible at the same time. The media can't reconcile the differences between market and relevance.

     Truth is worth more, but lies sell better.

     George Bernard Shaw said that life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself.
      I think that's a task that should never be put down.....