I don’t generally like Slate, for various reasons, but this article on the “re-proletarianization” of the American worker, is well worth your time:
And just to throw some music content in: a discussion about Sebadoh on Postcard today led me to listen to “Bakesale” (which is, unaccountably, the only Sebadoh record I have on my iPod) straight through twice. God, that’s a great record. Then I switched back over to shuffle, and the first three songs it threw at me were:
“Live Free”—Son Volt
“Pop Art Poem”—The Jam (I still have the original flexidisc of that somewhere, I bet)
“Waltzing’s for Dreamers”—Richard Thompson
I love my iPod. And it loves me.