Given that Wretchard has an Ivy degree, should I understand that others of us who did time in an Ivy grad school are now personae non gratae at BC? I have my faults, but arrogance isn’t one of them. Nor was it true of my close friends in the department.

I am sure that many professors would see our illustrious host as a failure of their system, in that he didn’t drink the swill. Of course not everyone comes out of an Ivy as a brain-dead nincompoop like John Kerry. They haven’t yet perfected their indoctrination techniques. The strong minded can still resist.

And of course it matters a lot what you’re in for, whether it’s a hard science or one of the mushier sorts of learning experiences.

I don’t mean to slag off anyone and everyone that’s been through that mill, but it’s pretty clear that the Ivys have produced a significant number of vultures, misanthropes, psychopaths, jackasses and degenerates.

I suppose all universities produce such dreck to some degree, but the Ivy grads find themselves in positions of power far beyond what they deserve. Hence, we find ourselves in a heap of trouble.

Really, if you could pass a law that no Ivy League graduate could have any political office in America, on average would we be worse off or better off?

I know my answer to that question.