Uneducated thugs

In response to our blog entry about the new, undereducated secretary of Homeland Security, reader Sandy Ridlington wrote:

"You know what this reminds me of? All the uneducated thugs who rose to the top among Hitler's brown shirts."

We didn't know about those thugs. But what about the well-educated ones in Bush's cabinet, like Condoleeza Rice (who has a Ph.D.)? Education doesn't seem to matter much when it comes to thuggery.