July 4th Isn't it Ironic -- Well, no, most of the time it's not. There are so few writers in the world that can do irony, or more correctly, do it well. Most of what passes for irony these days is of the annoyingly snarky "..as if" or "duh?" varieties. Jonah Goldberg of the National Review Online does a genius job of skewering the nitwit educators of the University of California system in this charmingly ironic take on the dumbing down of the SAT (http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg070102.asp).

I wish I had that man's couch.