Celebrity humanitarianism is Time Magazine's Person of the Year

Bono, Bill Gates, and Melinda Gates, wealthy public figures who have positively affected the lives of millions of people around the world, were named Time's Persons of the Year. They beat out Mother Nature, which had a slightly less positive impact on millions of lives in 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who negatively affected me by a few hundred dollars this year, and some other people whom I had never heard of and had to Google. Actually, I think the Google guys made the list. Google is the winner in my book, because without it I'd have no idea that Bono did anything more than sell black and red iPods and that Bill Gates was married.

[Reuters]