Sort of like Joe Biden and Senators of both parties.

Keep in mind that professors will lecture for 7 or 8 hours a week, devote two or three hours a week to conferring with students during office hours, and perhaps an hour a week to meetings. They seldom dress for work. If they land tenure (and those who succeed at that put in about 7-8 years before they do), they have a job until they elect to retire. Diligent professors are preparing lectures, correcting student submissions, and researching in their off hours, but they control their schedule. It’s not anyone else’s experience of the workplace.

In regard to his work history, he has a CV available. I assume he had p/t and seasonable positions in local businesses during the period running from 1957 to 1967. That aside, he was on campuses as a student or as a teacher from 1960 to 2008.

I have no idea what his actual biography is but he’s always left me with the distinct impression that the vast majority of his life experience is confined to the academic world (Wikipedia’s account of his life seems to back this up) and he has no real practical sense or knowledge of how the private sector actually works.

The younger girl threw a fit and burst into tears. No amount of consolation or explanation sufficed. She just bawled and screamed “It’s not fair!” The ironic thing was, she got so angry she wouldn’t even eat the ice cream she had.”

Well, now, there’s your problem — too many kids brought up with parents substituting consolation and explanation when the solution to the tantrum is simple:
“We are not influenced by whining. Eat what you have, or it will be removed. Continue with inappropriate behavior, and YOU will be removed.”

The follow-up is mandatory, but it works very well within one or two lessons.
I can bring testimonials from our five kids, whose psyches do not appear to have been damaged in the process (I asked them).

The explanations can be given at home later, by letting the kids practice scooping ice cream for each other and seeing that you just can’t make identical portions.
The important point of the exercise, however, is the rule that if Kid A scoops, Kids B-E pick their bowls first.

Note that they focus the camera for the official music video on the more handsome guys than on her, even though they can’t really avoid her completely.

The band had limited success, beyond “Never Say Never” and “A Girl In Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)”

Because, face it, bands led by hefty girls are not promoted by bands.

Then there’s Kosheen, which has a really really good singer in Sian Evans, but, while far from ugly, does not win beauty contests…. So for the official video of “Harder They Fall” they subbed in a blonde and made it kinda sorta almost look as though it was her singing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ0_W6vpilg
This is a video with the real singer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHqWUSYDg0U

(p.s., it’s posdef dance music in the electronica style. Notable for strong use of Breakbeats).

It is unfortunate that one strong indicator of success in music is how attractive a female you are. Talent matters far less than it should.

Not certain how much of that is derived from fan preferences and how much by music execs being ageist, sexist jackwads.

The former might have made some semblance of sense in the days of music videos, but much less before or since.

It’s an absolutely standard piece of microeconomic modeling. You fancy vendors can simply charge any price they want. They cannot, no matter how many assertions you make.