Silicon Valley's tech tycoons have been lurching towards the right wing for years now. But with the Valley's valuations climbing to record heights, those billionaires are backing Republicans like never before—and the party of obstruction is willing to say whatever it takes to get their dollars.

Welcome to the latest installment of Billionaire Musical Chairs. This week's round was a doozy. Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg zoomed past billionaire Larry Page, as billionaires-in-training watched the net worth from the sidelines. The real action, however, was on the real estate front.

After Oracle founder Larry Ellison plunked $300 million to buy his own island, he described his plan to transform Lanai into a "sustainable Eden" as "this really cool 21st-century engineering project." Now, in classic Silicon Valley fashion, Ellison is running the tropical rebrand with the "veneer of egalitarianism," "buzzwords," questionable promises, and non-disclosure agreements, reports The New York Times Magazine.

Recode reports noted yacht racing cheater Larry Ellison is leaving his day job.

Every year, the Chronicle of Philanthropy puts out a list of the largest donors. (Mark Zuckerberg came out on top in 2013.) But Inside Philanthropy calls that a vanity metric. Looking at the percentage of wealth an individual has given away, they argue, is the best measure of generosity.

After so long, a rare moment of tech exec sanity: Bloomberg reports Oracle's board rejected its yacht-cheating, island-owning CEO's salary. Shareholders say Larry's not doing his job well enough, so he'll just have to get by with tens of millions of dollars a year.

When you're one of the richest men in the world and supreme software asshole non plus ultra, flaking out on a 60,000 person conference to watch your yacht team instead is totally cool.

Larry Ellison makes 2,236 times more than the average American worker and more than twice as much as a Exxon Mobil's CEO. But what does he make compared to his employees at Oracle? The SEC is finally expected to issue a proposal requiring companies to disclose the pay gap.

Oracle founder and island owner Larry Ellison had a vision for yacht racing: it would be a sport so insane and magnificent, only the kings who ruled other kings could afford to participate. But in his pursuit of perfection, The Wind God went too far—his America's Cup racing team just got penalized for cheating.

Like space travel and imaginary tubes, the extension of the human life span is being financed by the private interests of tech billionaires.

Software wealth emperor Larry Ellison, whose riches can now only be measured in parts of the Earth he legally owns, has reached a new mega-money milestone, the New York Times reports: His plans for the America's Cup sailing race are so expensive, dangerous, and insane, everyone else is quitting.

Boats, part of Hawaii, and now $200 mil worth of luxury Malibu real estate—tech billionaire Larry Ellison's eternal spending spree crusade continues. This is how you stay busy when you're the third richest man in America.

Software billionaire Larry Ellison is rich. Jet-owning, fleet-cruising, bought an entire Hawaiian island rich. But there's been something missing in his aggrandizing oeuvre. Maybe an invite from Larry Ellison to the premiere of a movie about Larry Ellison called The Wind Gods will do the trick.