The school year must be winding down at Harvard, ’cause the Crimson Blog Crew — rather than deconstructing Randian political philosophy — is working now to blow the lid off of ABC’s sleazy “romance” fest, “The Bachelor.”

It seems that the bachelor himself, Harvard alum Alex Michel, may have admitted (in an email currently circulating through the Harvard digital underground* and reprinted by Alex Rubalcava) that he was pressured by the producers of “The Bachelor” to select the heftier of the two finalists, Amanda — though in the email he also assures his Ivy League social club brothers that he (wink wink nudge nudge) “bagged” the, er…less curvaceous Trista, anyway.

I have no idea how true any of this is, mind you — hell, it could be a cleverly designed bloax [blog-hoax] by the Crimson Blog Posse just to see just how far up the news ladder the story gets — but for what it’s worth, Mr. Kinnen and Mr. Yglesias seem eminently trustworthy to me, so decide for yourselves how much credence to lend all this.

The fact that so many silly droolbuckets watched this televised ode to prime time pimpin’ to begin with — and in lieu of downloading some really good internet porn, say, or maybe watching an old Foxy Brown flick — blowns my mind…

*For the record, I have no idea if Harvard has a “digital underground”; ‘just thought it sounded kinda bitchin’…