Babs Bush makes a donation to help out Katrina refugees. Except it looks like she is really helping out her son Neil.

Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.

[link|http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/05/katrina/3742329.html|Link]

And a piece by Brad DeLong reminds us how Neil's Ignite! software company works;

Neil goes around the world finding international statesmen, bigwigs and criminals who want to 'invest' in Ignite! as a way to curry favor with the brother in the White House.

[link|http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/|Link]

How .... charitable.