Congratulations to the LA Kings for winning the Stanley Cup. I can’t imagine a place less suitable for hockey than LA, but then I don’t really consider June a “hockey month” either. I mean, it was 90 degrees here yesterday – hockey was definitely not on my mind. Not that hockey is ever really very much on my mind.

I used to like going to the Syracuse Blazers games back when I was a kid, when my brother used to take me (I remember my first one, I couldn’t figure out why everybody was leaving after the third “quarter”). The fights were quite entertaining. I even went to one of the current team’s games (the Crunch) versus our dreaded rivals, Rochester , when I got dragged along by a friend of mine and some friends of his. One of the guys I was with actually managed to get in a fight with one of the Rochester players, which was pretty funny (a scene straight out of “Slap Shot”).

I think there may have been alcohol involved.

On the way in to work this morning, I heard that the median net worth of Americans fell from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010. That’s like 39%, and a loss of something like 18 years worth of savings and investment. Seems as though most of that drop was the decrease in home equity.

There’s good news, though. People in the top 10% of income saw their net worth increase from a median of $1.17 million in 2007 to $1.19 million in 2010.

So, like, shouldn’t they have created some jobs?