I discovered an intriguing webpage today regarding September 11th. While many Americans were doing their normal routine, Warren Buffett was hosting an early-morning charity golf tournament at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Invitees included a group of New York City CEOs, including one whose office was the exact site of impact of the second airplane to strike the towers.

Offutt AFB just happens to be headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command. In other words, the group in charge of US air defense.

It get stranger. Offutt AFB was one of the bases to which Bush flew that day.

Why was Warren there? Why were WTC CEOs there with him? And why did Bush feel the need to stop by for a visit?

Most likely it is all mere coincidence. Then again, Mr. Buffett may have some explaining to do.

Read more about the story here. Be sure to follow the links. Each factoid is fully referenced by mainstream press reports.

Courtesy of Dave Barry’s blog, here are the world’s worst Halloween costumes.

Welcome back, Kotter!

I suppose its appropriate that R.E.M. plays here in October. I consider them merely the ghost of what they once were. There was a time ten years ago I would’ve done anything to see them play. Now that Bill Berry is no longer drumming for them, they don’t have the right to call themselves R.E.M.

Though I won’t be going to tonight’s concert, one of their songs is on my mind this morning:

Let’s put our heads together and start a new country up
Our father’s father’s father tried, erased the parts he didn’t like
Let’s try to fill it in, bank the quarry river, swim
We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red

This is where we walked, this is where we swam

Take a picture here, take a souvenir

This land is the land of ours, this river runs red over it
We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red
And we gathered up our friends, bank the quarry river, swim
We knee-skinned it you and me, underneath the river bed

This is where we walked, this is where we swam

Take a picture here, take a souvenir
Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga, gone

Let’s put our heads together, start a new country up,
Underneath the river bed we burned the river down.
This is where they walked, swam, hunted, danced and sang,
Take a picture here, take a souvenir
Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga, gone

Rewrite the book and rule the pages, saving face, secured in faith
Bury, burn the waste behind you

This land is the land of ours, this river runs red over it
We are not your allies, we can not defend
This is where they walked, this is where they swam
Take a picture here, take a souvenir

Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga, gone
Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga, gone.
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Artist: R.E.M.
Song: Cuyahoga