Flutterby™! : bowling alone

I'm reading Bowling Alone right now. It doesn't strike me as terribly well written, but the data it presents are extremely interesting, and for a book dedicated to the "it was better in the old days" idea shows some interesting ways that that's not necessarily true; the chapter I was reading last night gave some studies which assert that we actually tend to move less now than in the '50s, and I hadn't been aware of just how much per GDP defense spending has been declining, even through the alleged excesses of the '80s. Worth a look, I expect that my copy will be making the rounds when I'm through with it.