So I buried the lede

The post before, which ends with a rather significant opinion by the very rich money man Warren Buffett, comes at the end of a rather insignificant opinion by very not rich, not monied man, Dick of EFD. If it is “burying the ‘lede’,” as is charged so often by newspaper editors, so be it. I buried the lead intentionally. If you don’t understand it, I suppose I am sorry, but not really. But this I will say:

Today I met an old man who was getting out of his pickup truck in East Texas. He looked more than pretty weathered and his belly was even bigger than mine. He was wearing a hat bearing the insignia of the 82nd Airborne Division. If that was his division then he would have seen more than anyone would have had a right to experience at the Battle of the Bulge. But just being neighborly, I asked the old fellow after he emerged from his truck how he was doing.

“Fine,” said the old man. “But I expect I’ll get over that.”