When is humor no longer funny?

[kandrathe]

:D

Point taken. Well, in many european countries trying to obtain a PhD is normally done by giving you a 4 year contract at a university. So you get a salary that is a bit lower than what you could have gotten at a company, but not very much. Also you get all the other benefits like pension build up, allowance for paying monthly fess to medical insurance etc.

And by the way...department politics in industry are probably worse (especially because as a PhD student you hardly are bothered by these things).
By the way, yesterday I saw by accident a documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger on TV. Let's just say it didn't increase my appreciation for actors in politics.

The media fascination with the freak show. Some other notable, less flashy ones are Sonny Bono, Clint Eastwood, Fred Grandy, and Fred Thompson. It's nice to see some non-lawyers become politicians though.