At the outset, let’s not forget that Mirengoff was the beneficiary of AA. Just the AA of an earlier time: one that finally allowed Jews to be admitted, without numerical limits, to the Ivy Leagues.

Second — as the graphic at right proves, and as he reaffirms in his text today… he truly believes that people of color (as a class) are not now, and will never be… his intellectual peers.

Ugh. [He forever and always seems to ignore any of the NASA scientists from MIT — who look in no manner… like him.]

Nope… I just want to note it, for the hilariously poignant irony of his telling us that meritocracy… means more whyte kids getting… non-numerical “boosts” — to enter the Ivies.

Wow. What a bitter, sad and twisted old codger he’s become. He was also one of those guys who got arrested for storming the admin. buildings of his undergrad campus (Dartmouth; and holding them for three days!) — as a protest against the Vietnam War.

Where o where… did that guy go, Paul?

“Send in the clowns. Don’t bother — they’re already… here.”

[With apologies to Judy Blue-Eyes.]