Some Memorial Day reminders:
- The President’s Memorial Day Proclamation
- From the Evangelical Outpost, “The Red Poppy.”
- From Winds of Change, an exhaustive list on “How to Support the Troops.”
One reason boomers aren’t saving is made clear in this article from the Houston Chronicle.com, “Credit card habit eating away at retirement“:
The number of consumers who pay off their credit card balances in full each month has dropped for three consecutive years — from 44.4 percent in 2000 to 38.3 percent in 2003, according to newly released data from cardweb.com. Experts attribute the trend in general to the country’s credit culture, and in particular to the baby boomers, the huge generation of Americans who set the pace on nearly every cultural phenomenon.
An intriguing article on how blogs are taking hold in Japan from the Associated Press via the Seattle Times.com–“Japan’s rising Internet star preaches gospel of blogging“:
After developing some of the country’s hottest Net ventures, the 37-year-old entrepreneur [Joichi Ito] has a new mission: Making the journals known as Web logs, or blogs, not just a thriving business but also a key element of everyday life here. . . Ito believes blogging will one day prove as influential as the printing press. “Blogging will fundamentally change the (way) people interact with media and politics . . . ”