What 2012 Has Taught Me

• Your core principles and proven success in life are less important than how you took your dog on vacation in 1983.

• Madonna and Lady Gaga are not related.

•  Never pay full price for any movie that Will Ferrell is in.

• People take their chicken sandwiches very seriously.

• Twitter is not only one of the best things that has ever been invented (you can find some great humor on Twitter) but it is also one of the worst things ever invented.

Pope's Tweet: "Just got The Catholics vs Cousins t-shirt. LOL!!!

• You didn’t build that.

• The “rich” (definition: anybody with more money than me) need to pay “their fair share” (definition: more).

• Movies do not cause people to commit heinous acts of violence, unless, of course, they are Muslims.

• From Marybeth Sullivan: “2012 taught me that a major league baseball infield extends 225 feet from home plate”.

• The most precise description ever regarding football from a Brazilian super model married to a quarterback: “You [have] to catch the bouell (ball) when you're supposed to catch the bouell (ball). My husband cannot [curse word that rhymes with ducking] throw the bouell (ball) and catch the bouell (ball) at the same time. I can't believe they dropped the bouell (ball) so many times.”

• “The Rick Santorum Look” never quite caught on.

• There will never be another Andy Griffith, Dick Clark, Whitney Houston, Duck Dunn, Joe South or Levon Helm.

• The guitar in the songs “Stranger In The Night” and “Help Me Rhonda” was played by Glen Campbell, who was a member of a band called “The Wrecking Crew”. “The Wrecking Crew” was a group of studio musicians that played on about a million records in the 60’s and 70’s.  “”The Wrecking Crew” also included Leon Russell and Dr. John.

• One reason why we need to reemphasize math: Our colleges and universities are stocked with professors in which English is no where close to their primary language.

• All it takes is a nut and a gun.

• Maybe replacement referees were not such a good idea

• The most important book I read all year was The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power  by Robert Caro.  I tweeted about “LBJ” and some thought I was talking about Lebron James.

• When history classes 100 years from now studies the decline of American power, it will focus on three words:  “Honey Boo-Boo”.