I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).

This week: Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will head the University of California system…for some reason. Paired with the embarrassing spat over former General David Petraeus, whom NYU was going to spend $200,000 a year to teach two classes (the usual rate is a few thousand dollars), it is clear that academia has become besotted with celebrities, passing over qualified scholars to make a splash. Never mind that they’re unqualified.