I’m a big fan of Carol Lay’s WayLay comic.

But I just don’t get the recent storyline at all.

I didn’t know it until yesterday, but Susan Buffett died last month.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/news/newsmakers/susanbuffett_obit/

She was an interesting woman, as I guess you’d have to be to be married to Warren. Susan was Warren’s sister’s roommate at Northwestern. She had wanted to marry someone else, but Warren convinced her father that he was the better man for her. She was jewish, and had wanted to marry a gentile. Warren, while not jewish, told her father “I’m jewish enough for you, and christian enough for her.”

In 1977, after her 3 kids were grown and out of the house, she told Warren she was moving to San Francisco to pursue a music career. She set Warren up on several dates to help him find a woman to take her place. They didn’t divorce or anything, just sort of went their separate ways but visited from time to time. Astrid Menks, the woman who eventually ended up living with Warren was quoted as saying “Living with Warren is the best job I ever had.”

At every annual meeting, you would see Susan and Astrid sitting next to each other chatting amiably.

If she had survived Warren, she would have become the second richest person in the United States, after Bill Gates.

She was a fierce social advocate, working on behalf of people with AIDS and other causes.

Not a wasted life, I don’t think.

There was an interview with Rod, the gay character from Broadway’s Avenue Q, on NPR this morning.

He was crying discrimination because the GOP convention organizers were not offering discounts to Avenue Q, which, according to the Tonys, was the Best Book, Best Score and Best Musical of 2004.

Rod: “I guess they can’t handle naked puppet-on-puppet action.”

The interviewer reminded Rod that they had gotten discounts to see another show with naked puppets, The Lion King.

Rod: “What?! That’s it. I’m calling Dick Cheney. Dick! Get ready, ’cause I’m calling you!”

Heh, heh, heh.