(And, to be charitable, they look ridiculous).
With Rachel Alexandra not running, the Peter Pan winner, Charitable Man, looks like the only horse in the field with early speed.
Yesterday morning, from their picture windows overlooking the World Trade Center, the staff members of United Jewish Communities, the umbrella group of Jewish charitable federations, looked on dumbfounded as smoke billowed from the first tower.
When taxes are considered, however, the charitable route looks golden.
A new charitable trust looks set to be created to run Cheltenham venues like the Pittville Pump Room and Town Hall.
Rather than looking at large-scale charitable giving, they looked at why some male chief executives paid their employees more generously than others.
I suspect that after all these years, Booktrust - the charitable organisation who look after the children's laureate - could pretty much cope with anything a laureate could throw at them! 6.
That's the most charitable way to look at this very interesting Sunyvale company.
Another trap is that many charitable schemes that look good now won't later if either of two events happen: estate and/or capital gains tax rates drop, or stocks endure a prolonged decline.
