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Thanks to kmusser for this link to Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

RIP, John Kenneth Galbraith

The British chancellor, Gordon Brown, paid tribute yesterday to John Kenneth Galbraith, the influential economist and author of the bestseller The Affluent Society, who died at the weekend aged 97 from complications sustained from pneumonia.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1764889,00.html