Turns out that by mid-career, Philosophy majors will be earning more than Architects, Biologists, Chemists, Geologists, IT guys, Marketers, and Political Scientists. Take that business school!

Classics conspicuously absent from this list. : (

When he called politics “queen of the sciences,” I wonder if he ever had our present-day farce of science funding being controlled by wingnuts and charlatans who are quite possibly the least qualified to be making decisions on the validity of scientific inquiry (that being an improvement over when they are downright hostile to it, of course).

On a side note, I wonder if it is still acceptable to reference The Onion for everything when the Stuff White People Like blog has just written about our love of… referencing the Onion for everything.