Issodhos @aol.com wrote:

[...]
>   As to academia, it is for the most part really nothing more than a
>reservoir of dull witted chaps attempting to engrave in stone the concepts
>of a by-gone age, fearing nothing more than a challenge to orthodoxy.  Has
>anything of human value ever been initially supported by the dullards of
>academia?

Oh no! Surely dim-wits are no more prevalent in academic circles than the
population at large? I could be mistaken of course, but I suspect that you
simply had unrealistically elevated expectations to begin with and you are
now measuring them against inflated standards.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell tas