Kathleen Grimm, the deputy schools chancellor in charge of deciding that it’s okay for New York City public-school children to sell Doritos to each other at fundraisers but not home-baked brownies, earned $196,574 cash salary in 2008, not including benefits.

And that is really all there is to say.

— Nicole Gelinas, contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, is author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street — and Washington.