Complaining of Slums I Force Myself to Inhabit

I was driving around the Arctic, doopty-doo, snow snow snow, hey, there was a woman, a stunning Scandinavian blonde, all checkbones and blue eyes beneath bangs, tight ass in yoga pants, she and her dogsled team were stranded on the banks of a raging river (rivers don't freeze in the Arctic despite temperatures never topping zero), but I was in my old Toyota Matrix, I hadn't - my consumerist moral failure - purchased a new Land Rover, I couldn't ferry her and her twelve dogs across the raging river, so I got none.

• So no, I didn't watch the debate. And I've got product in the pipeline - at least one, tomorrow - and friends have links and this is a Helmetball Sunday before Giftmas, so fuck it.
• Master debating. Which makes me think of Rentbay Atesbay and that old joke. Two of you will get this.
• Collateral.
• From ignorant aggression to aggressive ignorance.
• Court Jester judges Clinton the victor. The key question: Clinton's performance proved, yet again, how gifted she is as a debater. And, it made me wonder, yet again, why her campaign seems to want to limit debates in this primary. She shines in them -- and did so again tonight.
• I've an answer. So do you. No need to type it out.
• What people want in a candidate.
• Who owns Bernie?
• Clinton v Trump, the first debate.
• #406.
• { feuilleton }'s weekly links.
• The power to persuade.
• THIS IS NOT A LIST!! Aquarium Drunkard's unranked notable albums of 2015.
• I'd not heard of All Dogs and Waxahatchee until two days ago. I don't have enough time, enough ears.

THE CANDY-MAKER'S SONG

John Newlove

Add day long
       in my factory
I sing the same song,
       grumbling, refractory,

twisting my reasons
       for hating the place,
in all seasons
       noting the change by the space

given in orders to eggs
       or to peppermint canes,
ducking among the legs
       and tables, sprains

in my fingers and thumbs;
       looking for reason, to grab it,
and complaining of slums
       I force myself to inhabit.