[Bloody Sam Roberts]

As far high school books go, I'm sure there must be some payouts involved as well. Its the only thing that explains some of the insane prices that are involved.

And the "Payola" scandals in the radio industry years ago resulted in laws against this practice.

But perish forbid the same standard should be applied to that bastion of Liberal thought and training...Academia.

[aimhigh]

We could greatly reduce the cost of education by putting the best lecture series on DVD and thereby eliminating most of the socialist professors.