That’s what friends are for

What a cozy little world we live in:

Hey, let’s see what the University of California’s law school has done over the past decade or so in regard to their most infamous employee (Lower number is base compensation; higher is total compensation, with the difference consisting largely of a “summer research grant,” which is what law professors are paid to encourage us to do the 40% of our job that is supposed to consist of research. I imagine it will come as a surprise to a lot of academics that getting paid extra to do research is a thing in our cozy little corner of academia):

The moral of this story, the moral of this song, is that crime pays, and very well indeed.

Also, academic freedom isn’t free. Or something.