Okay, granted, this editorial is nearly 30 years old, but it still is worth a read. From an erstwhile high school and college schoolmate of William Barr.
The Attorney General grew up on the Upper West Side, not far from Medium Happy world HQ (so did Hollywood legend Robert Evans, by the way). What struck me here is that it didn’t take long to unearth that Barr is an alumnus of Horace Mann School in Riverdale, N.Y. (the nicest part of the Bronx, just across the Harlem River from the northern tip of Manhattan). Reading up on it, the school, founded in 1887, has a more noteworthy (and notorious) alumni roster than just about any university in the U.S.A. outside the Ivy League.
The MH Top Ten (in terms of notoriety AND fame) from Horace Mann:
10. Josh Molina, actor (The West Wing, other Sorkin projects)
9. Paul Zimmerman, a.k.a. Dr. Z, Sports Illustrated NFL guru
8. Eliot Spitzer, former governor and attorney general of New York
7. Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives
6. Robert Caro: Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, wrote The Power Broker
5. Renee Richards: pioneering transgender tennis player, doctor
4. William Carlos Williams, poet and medical doctor (“So much depends on the red wheelbarrow…”)
3. William Barr, Attorney General of the United States
2. Roy Cohn, lawyer and enabler of Joseph McCarthy and Donald Trump
1. Jack Kerouac, founder of the Beat generation
Sadistic kids grow up to be sadistic adults.
Smart, rich, well educated sadistic kids grow up to be Attorney Generals.