KENNETH ANDERSON BURSTS A BUBBLE OF SELF-REGARD:

Academics who take jobs in an administration, any administration, are not bodhisaatvas who, in their compassion toward lesser and less enlightened human beings, have postponed their trip into nirvana to remain in the realms of sin and desire on earth in order to minister to the rest of us.

No one who knows academics well could believe this for a moment — er, unless he or she is an academic, too, I guess . . . .