Ah...the First Day of Summer

Summer has come in Ann Arbor and the homeless are out. The punishing weather up here in the north means that a tragic number of the homeless face real danger of dying. Along with the myriad of reasons that homeless are in a bad way...the homeless population in the Industrial Northeast faces both high unemployment and nasty environment. Normally I'm snarky on this blog, but homelessness in America is a serious problem. That the richest nation on earth cannot keep all its citizens under a roof, employed, or at least give them the medical/psychiatric treatment they need is one of the greatest sources of shame for the U.S.