Thoughts for the new year My own father was a narcissist who believed none of the rules that applied to normal people ever applied to him. Everything wrong was always someone else’s fault, though he’d quickly take credit for anything good that happened around him. I’m used to this crap, and know that over the long run it will be defeated. Here’s why.

As my old college friend Brian O’Donnell used to observe, “Whenever you say ‘Somebody ought to fix this,’ you, invariably, are the somebody.”