This is funny. Daniel Drezner, having received the full professor status, lists the benefits:
6) Something better than that stupid f@#%ing pen ceremony. As this site observes, "The scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind in which mathematics professors ritualistically present pens to Nash was completely fabricated in Hollywood. No such custom exists."
In the actual ceremony, colleagues ritualistically present signed and notarized statements in which they confess that they were in error when they labeled your research as "putrid swill" back when you were a post-doc.
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4) When required to wear full academic regalia, full professors get to wear swords. Nobody better mess with me at commencement.
Read the whole thing.
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So a wingnut gets a cartoonish version of religious history:
A discussion at Dr.Katte's blog that is worth your time.
The IBC is chastising publications that cite the Lancet estimate of Iraqi deaths. lenin comments:
Would you believe I still get email about cracker abuse? At least this one is novel in its tone.