Rob.. yet again you have hait the nail on the proverbial head. Why on earth does any cultural institution waste time and money trying to contribute to our knowledge and understanding? In fact, come to think of it, what use is knowledge and understanding at all? I'd be interested in reading your opinions on the waste of time and money which our universities are responsible for. Time to put these money grabbing, unassessed cultual elitists in their place I think. Rob, you are just the man to do it as you seem ideally suited.
Nelson, I blush at these plaudits!
It might be difficult as I'm not of the USA, but look, there seems to be a little vacancy in the legal department right now due to a younger man passing on to other duties in that greater court in the sky; if you could manage to generate some votes for me... after all, I do have Italian blood somewhere in my veins, so it could always be presented as continuity, making Conservatives happy if confused, and Republicans wistful for what they threw away - just as the rebelling French with their mechanical, sliding axes which, I'm reliably informed, was the science upon which Otis built his fortune.
I sense we can go places together, you and I!
Rob C