With college kids, Bernanke gets away with dissing gold

``Echoing Warren Buffett, Bernanke says the gold standard is stupid because it's a matter of digging gold up only to bury it in a hole somewhere else'' -- Ok Ben, if gold is so useless, why don't you lobby to get the US to sell off the rest of its supposedly-held gold, and we'll happily take as much as we can buy (with both hands) with your green paper tickets...