no matter what you may have heard about the sour economy, there are still plenty of boats on lake minnetonka. on the surface this makes no sense. if you turn on any electronic device, including practically the toaster, you're told we're either in the middle of, emerging from or returning to a recession. for most people this implies a lack of jobs, a lack of money, and you would think a lack of time for practicing the principle of displacement. but there they are, boats. and according to the people who take them to market, the bigger they are, the faster they sell. that's why out of all the story lines we're knitting around the contemporary american economy, wasteful government spending, inexceptional education, foreign competition, i'm hanging my life jacket on the resurgence of financial stratification. you see, according to the unique glacial pock marks i call home, this country isn't suffering from an overall shortage of wealth. it's just that the money we do have is disproportionately con send freighted in a handful of 40-foot weekend cruisers, and that's where i'm going to stop. you see