I stayed up half the night reading Barbara Ehrenreich's " Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" - I just wasn't able to stop until I was finished. And now, bleary eyed and fuzzy headed, I'm too incapacitated to explain why it was so great. So here's an excerpt, and I'll just have to throw in my two cents later.

"Nickel and Dimed"..."my two cents" - ugh, I need a nap.