From Mock Paper Scissors:
Giving It The Ol’ College Lie
We’ve long said that the one thing that John Edwards got right was that there are two Americas, and I gotta tell you, the whole notion of meritocracy just got blown out of the water. America is about money and power. Our great wealth inequality problem has not been laid so bare —in public—in a long time.
The fact that you can get into Stanford and Yale based on sailing prowess is why giving the finger is the only response to any article complaining about affirmative action.