reading:
John Bowe (ed): Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Gail Simone: Birds of Prey
Sarah Vowell: Take the Cannoli
Howard Zinn: People's History of the U.S.
Thing is, usually I have a tolerance for this sort of bad news. But I've taken the past few weeks off from my fervent NPR-listening/blog-checking, because it was getting to be too much.