My reads from Saturday morning:
- Race Guides Neighborhood Evaluation, Study Says – Interesting new study by Maria Krysan.
- An Unhappy Year – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com – How has our subjective well-being fared during the recession?
- Sociological Images » Isn’t It Cute When Kids Sound Racist? – Gwen at Sociological Images does a nice job of using this stupid video as an example of how many whites treat racism in a causal, taken-for-granted way.
- U.S. Debt Set to Soar in This Year – washingtonpost.com – We’re going to hear a lot of talk about Democrats driving up the deficit, never mind that Bush turned a budget surplus into a record-setting deficit.
- WE THE ROBOTS » Stomach Pain – One of my new fave comics.
- Music – ‘Sweet Soul Music,’ on PBS, Captures a 1967 Concert by the Stax/Volt Revue – Review – NYTimes.com – Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Booker T. and the M.G.’s, plus the Mar-Keys.
- Op-Ed Contributors – Four Ways for Detroit to Save Itself – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com – Four auto technologies of the future explained by a professor of computer science at Stanford and a product manager at Google.