Why we Love BuffetSource: TheStreet.com
Warren Buffet is the most admired man in business. He comes from humble origins and is not materialistic and Mainstreet loves him. He is smart and respected in the business world and Wall Street needs him. But what is it about him that really captures us.
The All-Inclusive All-You-Can-Eat Buffet GuideSource: eatingtheroad.wordpress.com
This is the definitive guide to becoming a seasoned all-you-can-eat buffeter. If you would like to gain knowledge of each and every aspect that lay between you and getting the most fulfilling meal possible you have come to the right place.

Ever been at a buffet-style dinner party and grabbed what would seem to be an innocent and delicious pickle from the veggie tray?
You save the bumpy, briny little gem for a moment that is just right.

This morning on NPR it was being discussed that an employee had balled up some of his pubic hair and put it into some food he was either serving or delivering. It was said that we know this type of thing is going on all the time all over, but we choose to ignore it.
10 ways the new economy will look differentSource: Christian Science Monitor
But it's not Panglossian to predict that today's fear will break, eventually, and rational economic exuberance will return. Consumers will spend again, particularly on things they think have value. Banks will lend again, perhaps with more care.

It is common knowledge that the stock market is crumbling faster than a stale shortbread cookie. We are in a state of repression and barely teetering on the edge of an all out depression.
NY Mayor Mayor Bloomberg Declares War On {{{ Salt }}}Source: WCBSTV.com
Singer Jimmy Buffett will never find his "lost shaker of salt" in New York City or any other place in the country if Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way. The mayor is waging a war on salt and he wants food manufacturers and restaurants to join his army … or else.

Among the super-rich are investors and hedge fund managers. These Americans are the special beneficiaries of specific legislation in recent years which helps them avoid taxes. New taxes are needed to save the vast amount of revenue lost as a result.
Hungry seal hits bonanza at fish hatcherySource: The Boston Globe
Looking for a stellar seafood place on the Cape, with locally raised fare and no wait? A brazen young harbor seal found just that today after she sneaked into a state fish hatchery in Sandwich and dined on an all-you-can-eat trout buffet before being nabbed and returned to the se …
Seal turns hatchery into all-you-can-eat buffetSource: Yahoo! News
Life is a big buffet for a young seal with a talent for breaking and entering.
A young harbor seal somehow broke into a fish hatchery on Cape Cod on Tuesday and turned the place into an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Texan jailed after 2 ate from 1 plate Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dan Linscomb, 40, of Texas City, Texas, ate the buffet at the Iron Skillet restaurant in northwest Atlanta on Oct. 21. He admitted, an Atlanta police report said, that his girlfriend "ate a couple bites from his plate."
Obama the Philosopher Source: The Nation
But as the magnitude of the conservative failure has become apparent to all but the densest Americans, Obama the philosopher emerged, with an intriguing combination of new New Deal and old New Deal thinking.

Today was a bad day.
Buffett and Ahmadinejad Bet on Israel's FutureSource: The New York Times
Question: What do America's premier investor, Warren Buffett, and Iran's toxic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have in common? Answer: They've both made a bet about Israel's future.
They're Global Citizens. They're Hugely Rich. And They Pull the Strings.Source: The Washington Post
In a world with only two kinds of international institutions -- weak and dysfunctional -- the members of this superclass are filling a power vacuum when it comes to influencing decisions about transnational issues such as financial-market regulation or climate change.
U.S. bank woes are "poetic justice"Source: Reuters
The woes in the U.S. financial sector are "poetic justice" for bankers who designed and sold complex investments that have since gone sour, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Wednesday.