Links and a Nice Song for Sunday, October the 14th

Here's some legitimately nice new music. Well, maybe it's nice: I don't listen to lyrics.



-Yglesias fights the good fight on protecting kids from lead―even though they only have confusing and terrible jobs to look forward to.

-Jonathan Bernstein on what Conor Friedersdorf doesn't get about politics, as well as some caveats

-Dani Rodrik reminds everyone that you might want democracy, sovereignty, and globalization, but you only get to pick two

-The Hulk on the death of cinema.

-Amelia Lester has a nice write-up about Julia Gillard's evisceration of Tony Abbott

-Martin Wolf on how "fiscal famine and monetary necrophilia" screwed up interwar Britain, and it'll screw up Spain. If that sounds like hyperbole, it's just a poetic way of saying "austerity and deflation", which will screw up a country up.

-Adam Serwer drops some real talk about the Libyan embassy attacks.

-Jon Chait teases out the implications of the Republican advantage in the House.



Good luck with the week ahead, everybody!