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July 16, 2008

Warren Buffett does it again! (by Mitch Sisskind)

Not long ago in a message on this site I quoted Jimmy Breslin's description of the oracle of Omaha: "the second richest and first most boring person in the world." Well, Warren is not actually the second richest person in the world -- but is he the most boring? See for yourself! Here's Warren discussing the death tax, complete with chuckle-inducing word play: "The death tax is dead wrong!" Dude ain't called "the populist Polonius" for nothing!

Warren's video clocks in on Youtube at 122 views. And just the sake of comparison, with a total of about 3,600,000 views and counting, here are three little kittens --

Posted by on July 16, 2008 at 07:09 PM in Mitch Sisskind - Correspondent at Large |

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