https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJIXkgnOl9c

Bruce Springsteen’s statement on losing his musical partner of almost 40 years:

It is with overwhelming sadness that we inform our friends and fans that at 7:00 tonight, Saturday, June 18, our beloved friend and bandmate, Clarence Clemons passed away. The cause was complications from his stroke of last Sunday, June 12th.  Clarence lived a wonderful life. He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage. His loss is immeasurable and we are honored and thankful to have known him and had the opportunity to stand beside him for nearly forty years. He was my great friend, my partner, and with Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music. His life, his memory, and his love will live on in that story and in our band.

Rest in Peace, Big Man.

[NYT]

This car simply fascinates me. In California, it’ll cost about 25 grand after federal and state tax credits. About 8 hours to charge it at home, 30 minutes at the charging stations Nissan is installing in the four states it which it will initially be sold.  If Zipcar in NYC gets one, I’ll be first in line.

So it is official – Nissan makes the only two cars I would have if I needed a car.

Title: “Go the Fuck to Sleep”

Authors: Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés

Rank: 1

Blurb: “Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s verses perfectly capture the familiar — and unspoken — tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night.”

Review: “How sad that this is found to be entertaining to people. People wonder why there are foul-mouthed kids running around? Moral decay is right… I would never buy this or have it in my home. We actually find better ways to express ourselves other than using the F* word… it is actually ignorant to use that all the time.”

Customers Also Bought: “Monsters Eat Whiny Children”, by Bruce Eric Kaplan

Footnote: What? You haven’t heard Sam Jackson read it yet?

Go the Fuck to Sleep [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

While we were, um, contemplating the Circle of Life at the Stinque Remote Office yesterday, we noticed an unusual gift that the Plumbing Gods had bestowed on our meditations.

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“While launching into an attack on the right and the conservative funders/progressive bogeymen known as the Koch Brothers, [Howard] Dean first pronounced their name more like a famous part of ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s anatomy than the classic cola.” [TPM]

• PajamasMedia: “Hey Reuters, Anthony Weiner is a Democrat”
• Big Journalism: “Correction Request: Reuters IDs Weiner as ‘Republican'”
• Weasel Zippers: “Reuters Labels Weiner A ‘Republican’ After He Resigns”
• Reuters: “Amid scandal, U.S. Rep. Weiner set to resign”

Wait, what?

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Americans’ life expectancy may be 78 years, but a new report says only 69 of those years tend to be healthy ones. . .

Which is an argument for the death panels, I think, so that they can kill you at age 69, or sooner if you are fat. Either way, the administration is releasing it’s multi-agency plan for “disease prevention”, which is code for taking away our freedoms by telling obese people (Real Americans) not to eat and smokers (libertarians) not to smoke and diabetics (also Real Americans) not to fuck with sugar. Basically, Obama is telling us all how to live our lives, which you should only do if you are telling it to a woman, and what you are telling her is she can’t abort any babies.

The plan is also a going to build us more sidewalks, so we can walk more, like suckers.