Retirement Blues

This should be the best time of life, but . . . (instead, we are become flaming squid huggers)

Required Reading

Common Sense by Thomas Paine Why America is Important - an anti-royalist, rabble rousing, revolution inspiring polemic
Screwed by Thom Hartman The undeclared war against the middle class and what we can do about it
Sleepwalking Through History by Hayes Johnson A stunning indictment of the Reagan Administration
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk A long rambling summa apologica for conservatives
The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction by Eric Rauchway The Title says it all
The Limits of Power by Andrew Bacevich A caustic critique of the growing American penchant for empire