> I first heard about that from my senior high physics teacher. I don't remember where I heard first heard it. Getting a nice grant from, say, NSERC has a lot of prestige and scores points with academic hiring committees, but there are likely conditions that come with the money. In order to spend some of it, one sometimes has to go through a bureaucratic maze in order to

kazan has been trashed for decades cuz he 'named names'. so what? since when is liberal ideology akin to mafia code of omerta? since when do liberals, who always speak of the need to dissent and to air dirty laundry, care so deeply about keeping mum and holding secrets? liberals love to out closet gays who lean right, closet racists, closet fascists, etc. liberals thrive in the media cuz the