New vocabulary word: kakistocracy

In many professions, when colleagues are attacked, there is generally a group that will come forward to their defense. The recent Mitchell Report with numerous allegations of steroid use in baseball has caused the player's union and many individual players to begin to speak out, criticizing the entire process. Even in higher education, the American Association of University Professors readily s.jpg in to address what it perceives as issues impacting faculty, even downsizing created due to Hurricane Katrina.