Special to the Free Press In this icy economic climate, one often hears the cold advice, “You have only yourself to blame.” The words echo down dark, trash-bestrewn lanes. The clock tower in the distance doesn’t yet strike thirteen, but one wonders what’s next. In early 1982 the solicitor-general department of Alberta ran billboard ads depicting a tow truck pulling a wrecked car out a snow-filled ditch. In the lower portion of the sign in large letters was the comment: “Don’t blame the weather. Blame yourself!” The strategy of encouraging more self-blame among often already discouraged and depressed people seemed dubious at best.