Melinda Gates

Apparently Melinda Gates read my last post (ha!).  I say that because after I suggested there that we needed a billionaire to come on board for the cause, I saw that she has stepped forward and begun a $5 billion campaign to disseminate birth control information and the tools of contraception to women globally.  She, a Catholic, is bravely taking on the Vatican.  We’ll see if they have the cheek to excommunicate her (or send the Inquisition to arrest her). 

Now, compare that to Larry Ellison buying Lanai.  Melinda is using some of the Gates’ billions to benefit humanity, to risk herself in a courageous crusade to make a better future.  She deserves our admiration and gratitude.  Larry is just wallowing in self-indulgence.  Living proof that wealth, in and of itself, does not confer virtue.