school, congressional, and johnny carson vacation time

Endless Vacation (video)
by Jim Twohie, on CBS News Video freeSpeech

workaholics

We Don't All Have to Be Workaholics
By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet.

Tom thanks Pope Benedict

"Idle thoughts"
Saturday September 9, 2006

Tom says here's to the Catholics who believe the Protestant work ethic is a dangerous thing.

take back summer

The Grinch Who Stole Summer
By Karin Klein

the perils of multitasking

I knew it. Not only is multitasking a "moral weakness", it is bad for you!

From TIME magazine:

Help! I've Lost My Focus
by CLAUDIA WALLIS, SONJA STEPTOE
TIME magazine
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006