links for 2008-08-05

• Only luck can save America’s economy - Clive Crook
• Why is Obama supporting "limited" offshore drilling? - How the World Works
• Big Companies' Manipulate Pensions for Executives' Benefit - ataxingmatter
• Last-Minute Mischief for Labor Department - Editorial - NYTimes.com
• Our Innate Sense of Numbers is Logarithmic, Not Linear - Scientific American
• The Emotional Might of the Nose - NYTimes.com
• Extinction threat growing for mankind's closest relatives - EurekAlert
• The war on the working class continues unabated - Kathy G
• Working conditions in the foreign operations of multinationals - Vox EU
• Income vs. Gas Prices - Real Time Economics