Wild Card/Saturday — 9.5.09

I have mixed emotions as I approach the Labor Day weekend this year. I have a job. But the newspaper industry is still struggling to regain its footing after the recession compounded the ongoing problem of revenue losses. I still have a job. But I also have absorbed a pay cut that’ll amount to at least 10% when the unpaid week furlough is figured in. I’m still enjoying my job. But too many others are struggling to find work or make ends meet. Some predict that we’re beginning to emerge from the recession. Yet, we’re piling on mountains of national debt that will have to be addressed some day. By us. Or by our children. We live in unsettling times. But you and I still have this online community that we’ve built together over the last 5 1/2 years. And a three-day weekend. So we’ll have to be content with that and this Wild Card for now …