The Season of Giving

I heard this morning that Warren Buffett is making another donation to charity.  You probably remember him from the headlines not too long ago when he gave 37 BILLION DOLLARS to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a rather heady sum.  Well he’s out to donate more, but since he already gave away all his money he’s now going to auction off his mint condition 2001 Lincoln Town Car!  The opening bid is set at $25,000.  Or roughly twice the blue book value for the car <snicker>.  He’ll probably get it, the guy once auctioned off a wallet for over $200K and this is for a good charity.  But common, a Lincoln Town Car?  What was he doing with that piece of shit in the first place?  It’s basically a gussied up Ford Crown Vic, and the only people buying those are police officers and people so old they probably shouldn’t be driving in the first place.  Ford is doing the right thing and finally euthanizing that dilapidated chassis in 2010 (not soon enough).  You’d think Warren could have found something a little nicer to auction off that that.