Dave Barry asks the always pertinent question "What is work? Why do we work? Is it a moral duty, or do we do it only because we have to? Is it O.K. to not work if we can get away with it? Do we resent those who are able to slack? Or do we envy them?"
Larry Sears reviews the book Doing Nothing : A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America. He calls the book "a fascinating - although at times also frustrating - analysis of both workers and slackers throughout the past 250 years of Anglo-American history. It begins as a small family story and then expands into a complex examination of the duality of work and leisure, including commentary from a variety of writers and intellectuals."
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