When I left academia to go to the private sector, I got a 40% bump in pay, and worked at least 30% less. And I didn’t have to write grants to support my program. When I was an academic, I thought people never came back to academia from the private sector because they couldn’t. I quickly found out that it was because they’d have to be crazy to come back. I wouldn’t have returned to the university for anything less than an endowed chair. And that was NOT going to happen.

Teachers in the US. Hands down.

The Chinese would have landed in Sydney by the time the French laid the keels for the subs in the deal they struck with Australia.

17 years isn’t nearly long enough

The Catholic Church is a oligarchic Republic in that the Popes are elected. But only the Cardinals do the electing.

Tell us you are ignorant without telling us you are ignorant. A republic of any kind is a state in which the head of state is elected. The US is a representative constitutional republic in which the representatives and head of state are elected- at least that’s the theory.

I hope they lock her and her co-conspirators up after conviction.