There are still four hours remaining on the West Coast and one on the East Coast before we say goodbye to Father’s Day 2010.
If you haven’t gotten a gift for your father yet, please hurry and read Nicholas Kristof’s article in the New York Times, full of neat ideas for a last-minute gift for that special Dad.
They are unique and thoughtful gifts—probably more useful and with much more bang for the buck than that tie we so often give, and receive.
As Kristof puts it:
Father’s Day tends to be less a celebration of fatherhood than a triumph of commercialism. The National Retail Federation projects that Americans will spend $9.8 billion on Father’s Day this year. To put that in perspective, that’s more than enough to assure a primary education for every child on the planet who is not getting one right now.
In fact, we could send every child to primary school and have enough left over to get each dad a (cheap) necktie. And if we skipped store-bought cards (almost $750 million annually) and offered handmade versions, the savings alone could make a vast difference to great programs that help young American men escape poverty.
There is still time left. Please click here.
Image: Courtesy Joe Gandelman
