Saturday, December 13, 2008

Simplement une pensée


Elitism is spelling "élitism" with an accent.

Merely a stray thought of mine, inspired by the New Yorker's weighing of elitism (or, as the magazine's editors would have it, élitism) within various presidential administrations. The writer concludes -- by counting Ivy League graduates who held cabinet-level appointments -- that Gerald Ford had the most élitist administration of the past forty years. Clinton had the least élitist.

"LEET!" as young dudes (who probably never even touch the New Yorker, don't you know?) might exclaim. "1337!"