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Don, check out "Force of Nature - The Life of Linus Pauling" by Thomas Hager, especially Chapter 22, pp. 569-571. Indeed, it was a worse case scenario "of a university favoring local politics over scientific excellence" and Peace on Earth. We are paying an increasingly unacceptable price for their failure to care more about their Ivory Tower aristocracy than the survival of the human race.— November 3, 2014 2:07 a.m.
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Don, one of my sons also graduated from UCSD in biology, I was glad he went there for that degree which he made a career out of. Unfortunately, UCSD is as bad as Berkeley when it comes to greed and corruption of its administrators and faculty. Case in point, Linus Pauling was the greatest American born scientist in the 20th century who won two unshared Nobel Prizes in 1954 and 1963, the first in chemistry as Father of Molecular Biology which ironically became UCSD's claim to fame, and the Nobel Peace Prize. In the 40s and 50s Pauling had joined dozens of liberal, pro-peace, antinuclear and antiwar organizations, but UCSD hired him for his Nobel chemistry prize in 1967 anyway. Then the powers that be at UCSD betrayed and marginalized him after his escalating rhetoric championing peace brought him to the attention of the regents, and he was forced to leave UC in 1969, proving that peace and long-term future quality of life are not their priorities.— November 2, 2014 1:53 a.m.
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Visduh, the worst problem is, considering the declining state of California today, far too many of the socalled "real colleges and universities" are also scammers, especially Berkeley where I graduated during the FSM era. We need another FSM type movement to demand that UC rededicate itself to educating Californians to solve real world problems instead of grossly overpaying aristocratic administrators and professors who don't give a damn about the future.— November 1, 2014 1:49 p.m.
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Don, if the republicans win the Senate on Tuesday, we shall have come full circle back to an oligarchy, and We The People American Democracy may never have another chance because the democrats failed to protect and preserve American Democracy. Greed and propaganda triumph, and that seems to be our default human nature. It's amazing how in this day and age people allow their rights to be controlled by an oligarchy, we never learned. We have totally failed to pass on an acceptable legacy to future generations.— November 1, 2014 10:37 a.m.
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OK Don, I accept your Greedometer. After all, you're the one who taught me most of what I know about greed and corruption. Hunter-gatherers probably started it.— November 1, 2014 3:39 a.m.
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Very interesting statement Don, the facts of life are that people who preach don't practice what they preach if it means they can't fill the collection plate, people who lecture don't really want to fix our problems because that takes effort and they might be paid less, people in Congress are only in it for the money and perks that their owners hand out to them, scientists do what the highest bidder pays them to do regardless of consequences same as businessmen who only care about maximizing their wealth regardless of consequences. And that's the way the world goes around, always has and always shall until we turn it into hell on earth.— October 31, 2014 3:22 p.m.
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Don, I always find it interesting that the people who taught us so much about Greed and Corruption also practice it so expertly. They play this game called Pay Raise Leapfrog where they claim they are just keeping up with the rest of their kind or they will leave UC. I would sure like to wave goodbye to the ones who really think we believe them.— October 31, 2014 11:50 a.m.
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Actually Don, UC is a For-Profit university when you consider the fact that the administrators and professors are egregiously overcompensated so they can live like aristocrats in imperial luxury while far too many well qualified California students are not allowed to attend unless the pay the price of UC's culture of corruption. This is UC's way of making sure the poor stay poor, and out of UC where they might pollute the air that the high and mighty breath.— October 30, 2014 2:40 p.m.
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Yes Don, you are pointing out the ultimate reality check, that democrats are just as responsible for the decline and fall of American Democracy and the American Way of Life as the republicans. The ultimate fact of life today is that we keep proving that Homo sapiens brains, especially male brains, have not evolved far enough to be any better than Pan troglodytes when it comes to survival of the species, and we are far more self-destructive than any species on earth. Practices of greed and corruption by the leaders of all of our social, political, economic, religious, scientific and educational institutions have put us on an increasingly fast track to hell on earth.— October 30, 2014 3:03 a.m.
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monaghan, by coincidence regarding our Founders, Michael Hiltzik wrote a column in the LATtimes this morning "U.S. income inequality is bad, but wealth inequality is a bigger problem" that discusses Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on this subject, very interesting relative to what you said. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-…— October 29, 2014 10:58 a.m.