Dude who railed his secretary while his wife was in the cancer ward says Grampy's on the verge of an "historic vicrtory"

[haele]

5. PhD also is shorthand for Piled Higher and Deeper...

I've met plenty of PhDs who deserve all respect for their ethics, education, study, innovation, smarts, and flat out hard work getting through the rat race of publication and the oral board to get that degree on a complex or obscure subject.

And I've met plenty clever, rather smarmy PhDs who got their degree picking a small facet of a common subject in which there's a lot of accessable work on that hadn't been "explored yet" - (example) something like, oh, "Oxygenation Properties of Exposed Raw Copper Weathering in Outdoor Fixtures over a 100 year period in the Southern Mississippi Delta Region" for a metallurgic engineering PhD candidate at Tulane or LSU.
While that particular research may provide a more granular answer to risks when designing buildings or electrical fixtures specifically in the Mississippi Delta, there's still a lot of information out there to easily research without going too far or working too hard - especially if they can get to local government accident reviews and case studies.