Our fundamentally strong economy is kicking Americans to the curb left and right. CNN reports that "tent cities," encampments of homeless people, are popping up all over the country.

From Seattle to Athens, Georgia, homeless advocacy groups and city agencies are reporting the most visible rise in homeless encampments in a generation.

Nearly 61 percent of local and state homeless coalitions say they've experienced a rise in homelessness since the foreclosure crisis began in 2007, according to a report by the National Coalition for the Homeless. The group says the problem has worsened since the report's release in April, with foreclosures mounting, gas and food prices rising and the job market tightening.

Is it 2008 or 1933? I forget.

Know what, unnamed 12-year-old who pitched a rock through Soulja Boy's bus window back in March? Things are cool between you and me, because I hate Soulja Boy, too. His music's awful and he's awful, and I wouldn't mind if that ho supermanner went mute tomorrow.

And I felt this way even before the little jerk started creating his new YouTube series, Rich Nigga Shit. Kinda like R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet, but without the music or troubled brilliance, Rich Nigga Shit is basically just minutes and minutes of Soulja Boy braying like a jackass to the delight of his tittering, weak crew.

Click through for episodes one and two of RNS—currently the entire oeuvre. The second is especially of note, as it features Soulja Boy using his particular brand of detestable bravado to completely ruin what could have been a good deed.

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Since he's surely surrounded by diamonds and platinum and glitter and miniature, yippy canines and fluffy fabulosity when he's hanging out with girlfriend, Kimora Lee Simmons, Djimon Hounsou was probably more than happy to get serious this week in Washington, where he visited Congress to lobby for the reauthorization of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, which provides funding for local programs set up to help homeless kids.

It's a subject close to Hounsou's heart — he was a homeless teen on the streets of Paris in the early 80s.

In the "wintertime, when I didn't have enough warm clothes to sustain the harsh weather outside, I was sent to a juvenile prison to spend the night," he told People. "It was three or four years before I was discovered on the street by a fashion designer [Thierry Mugler] and my life started to turn around, eventually." Now he's an Oscar nominee who spends copious amounts of time in the Fab Lane. How things change.

What do you think, guys? Am I too hard on Tyra? I mean, last night on America's Next Top Model she did take great pains to bring attention a very serious issue: homelessness. Actually, she brought attention to that one time that she brought attention to homelessness on the Tyra Banks Show by taking off all her makeup, dressing in rags, and sleeping on the street. But that's close enough, right? Also on last night's show, the contestants did a photo shoot with real homeless teens, who got to dress up in fancy clothes while the contestants put on homeless costumes! At the end of the shoot the teens presumably went back to their lives at the shelter, while the wannabes continued on the road to becoming America's Next Top Model. It was all very eye-opening.