Copying and pasting text with styles removed - PureText
A great little free tool came to the rescue: Steve Miller's PureText. I highly recommend that you give it a try!
Pasting text with formatting and styles removed is as easy as using the Apple+V shortcut, an easy replacement for CTRL+V.
Oh, for those who don't know, the Apple key is the one that looks like a window that looks like a waving flag located between CTRL and ALT...