My new favorite blogger is Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America. She's the one who worked as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide and Wal-Mart salesperson to see how well a person can live on minimum wage jobs.

Her latest blog entry (as of today) caught my eye. It's titled "Clitoral Economics" and begins, "With all the talk about how to stimulate it, you’d think that the economy is a giant clitoris. Ben Bernanke may not employ this imagery, but the immediate challenge–and the issue bound to replace Iraq and immigration in the presidential race–is how best to get the economy engorged and throbbing again." Now that's one way to get people interested in economics!

All her other recent topics are interesting, too. Not titillating, but interesting. My only complaint is she doesn't write very often.