Memo to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:

Speak up.

As the "nation's largest philanthropy devoted to health and health care," perhaps you can shine some light on this "insidious, incestuous, insider system."

Your truly.

Um, maybe that big announcement wasn't such a grand idea:

But as the euphoria of Buffett's record-breaking act recedes, his gift has triggered another, entirely different result -- intensifying questions in Congress and elsewhere about how well charities spend their money, how accountable they are to donors and government and the general condition of "civil society."

Long live self-regulation!