Will the Economy Help Democrats or Republicans More Next Year? Looks like, somewhere in between! Shucks. (Mother Jones)

Remembering Love Canal: On this day 37 years ago, Jimmy Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal in upstate New York in response to the discovery of massive amounts of toxins underneath a school and near a housing development. (Lawyers, Guns & Money)

Donald Trump Is The Nickelback of GOP Candidates: This is a few days old, but how could I resist a headline like that? The idea is that Trump is widely disliked but has a small band of devoted followers. (FiveThirtyEight)

Dick Cheney Was the Real Winner of the First Republican Debate: Hopefully that’s a little alarmist. You’re always going to get a skewed picture when it’s nothing but Republicans on national TV for a couple of hours. (HuffPo)

Hubble Finds Evidence of Galaxy Star Birth Regulated by Black Hole Fountain: Whatever the fuck that means. (Astronomy Magazine)

Black Lives Don’t Matter, Apparently, to Republican Candidates for President: And really, who could be surprised by this? (Guardian)

Hillary Clinton Is Running Away from Her Free Trade Record: She has publicly promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership 45 separate times. (Alternet)

Jon Stewart Hates Contemporary Art: And here’s the proof. (Artnet)

The GOP and Fox News Have a Secret Plan to Prevent Ridiculous Candidates from Turning Debate into a Laughingstock: I find this quite plausible and also rather shrewd. FOX’s furious agenda-setting in the “post-debate analysis” portion of the evening was quite evident, pushing Fiorina and Rubio for reasons known best to themselves. (Salon)

Staten Island Lawyer Wants to Settle Fraud Case with Trial by Combat: LARP LARP LARP LARP LARP LARP (Death and Taxes)

Car Crush: Why American Writers and Artists Can’t Stop Loving the Automobile: Includes a look at RIchard Yates, Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Kerouac (of course), etc. (The Millions)

Echo & the Bunnymen Brazilian TV special from 1987: