Just saw a job ad for Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information Technology Policy. This reminds me of a man I knew who was the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Is everything for sale? Are professors' titles soon going to be like the names of bowl games--sold to the highest bidder? This gets ridiculous really fast: the Chick-fil-A Bowl; the Capitol One Bowl; the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl; Little Caesars Pizza Bowl; GoDaddy.com Bowl. (I found those all on Wikipedia, but those are supposedly their current names; even more distressing is the fact that if a corporation is paying for a position, as soon as the corporation is bought or sold, the name of the position changes.)