It was Christmas Eve, and I was tracking Santa Clause with my six year old son on Google Earth. Santa's sleigh bounced between small European towns as midnight approached.

"Santa is coming", his tired and grouchy dad said. "You should think about getting to bed".
The boy was not tired, the boy would not budge.
"But he's still in the Ukraine", he said with a grudge.
Instead of threatening and yelling and such, Santa thought of a jollier touch.
He made that boy feel like a giant, by contacting him through a messaging client:
"Merry Christmas, it's Santa", the box on the screen did say.
"I'm talking to you on the computer today".
The boy at his desktop was excited that night.
Santa's message had caused him delight.
"Go to bed right now", Santa said in good cheer.
"Your parents are tired and Christmas is here."
Off to bed the boy went, not stopping to wander,
as Santa sat clicking the mouse over yonder.

Bill Gates has given more to charity than any human being in history.  Bono leveraged his celebrity status to entice the leaders of our richest nations to forgive $50 Billion in debt to poor countries.  I wonder how many lives they have saved through their actions?

"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow..."

"These are not the people you expect to come to the rescue. Rock stars are designed to be shiny, shallow creatures, furloughed from reality for all time. Billionaires are even more removed, nestled atop fantastic wealth where they never again have to place their own calls or defrost dinner or fly commercial"

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