Report on the bogus $73 an hour auto worker pay claim

NY Times has a breakdown on Big 3 auto worker (aka UAW auto worker) pay compared to pay for non-union American auto workers employed by Japanese auto companies. $73 an hour as the median pay is not an accurate claim of course, but there may have to be some pay concessions by Big 3 auto workers to help the Big 3 stay in business.

Be an UberNerd

Just saving a place to read The Compleat UberNerd, a 13-part blog post on the mortgage industry. It was written by the blogger Tanta who just recently passed away due to cancer.

Meat production and global warming emissions

All I do here is save NY Times articles. Here's another good one, this time about the increase in world meat production and the technologies that different countries are trying in order to reduce the global warming emissions associated with the production. But the head of the IPCC has the best solution: reduce meat consumption. And I read this while eating beef flank Vietnamese soup for lunch. Doh!

My stomach is rather full afterwards as the meat sits there. And I tried vegetariandating.com. Hah!!

Good Books

The Times's annual list of the year's notable books and what it views as the 10 best books.

In a recession, for a year now

The NY Times reports that we've been in a recession since December 2007. I thought two consecutive quarters of negative growth constituted, but according to the article, there are more factors (employment, personal consumption, housing prices) involved in declaring whether we're in a recession.

NY Times: One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex

After reading Glenn Greenwald's post yesterday, I want to read this NY Times article about former General Barry McCaffrey's connections to military contractors and his role as a NBC "independent" military analyst.

The Young Turks

These guys have been around for awhile, on Air America, XM radio, but I just discovered them today, and they're great, mainly of course Cenk Uyger. I couldn't stop watching the online show. It's a liberal political show but with an irreverent bent, particularly when it gets around to entertainment and personal stuff. Glenn Greenwald's post today referred to the funny video which I posted two posts ago. Like I wrote, Cenk Uyger was RIGHT ON in his analysis of the mainstream media.

The Young Turks

I'm watching/listening to Cenk now.

It's good enough that I've added a link to them in the right panel.