Extended stretches of my youth and early middle age were spent joyfully, if not triumphantly, working in political campaigns in some 38 states and Venezuela. My duties included fundraising, an experience that left an "anti-Calvinist," convinced that the Creator bestowed large amounts of money on the least appealing and interesting of Her creatures.

The "idealism" of the typical Big Giver is best summed up in the following story:

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