After work today, I sent Mark down to Safeway to get some fresh bread. As he came in he was yellling DAD… FIRE HYDRANT… BROKE… WATER… DO SOMETHING This was the view out the front door. Some kids had been jumping on the hydrant connection and broke it off. Within 10 minutes of calling the [...]
August, 2010:
The Tipping Point?
Seth Godin is done with publishing. Traditional book publishers use techniques perfected a hundred years ago to help authors reach unknown readers, using a stable technology (books) and an antique and expensive distribution system. The thing is–now I know who my readers are. Adding layers or faux scarcity doesn’t help me or you. As the [...]
Needed: School Supplies
For those of you who have or have had kids heading back to school, you know what kind of expense it is for school supplies. The Salvation Army in Saskatoon is helping low income families out by providing essential school supplies and they need your help. As you can imagine, the demand far outstrips supply [...]
Unemployed: The New Normal?
Disturbing article in the New York Times today about long term employment prospects in the United States. The “new normal,” as it has come to be called on Wall Street, academia and CNBC, envisions an economy in which growth is too slow to bring down the unemployment rate, while the government is forced to intervene [...]
The death of a dream?
We are seeing the end of middle class America. The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely exacerbated the “personal recession” that ordinary Americans had been suffering for years. Dubbed “median wage stagnation” by economists, the annual incomes of the bottom 90 [...]
