This will not surprise my wife.  According to the Readability Index my blog is readable for anyone with a Junior High level education.  Thankfully the readers of my business blog are getting Genius Level stuff, or does that mean that I’m talking over their heads?  Out of curiosity I looked at some of the other blogs that I follow and here are the results:

• Ed Cone’s was Elementary School 
• Fecund Stench’s was Genius
• Life in Forsyth’s was College, Undergrad
• Boing Boing’s was High School
• Freakonomics’ was High School
• Troublemaker was High School
• WXII’s was High School
• Fox 8’s was High School
• WFMY DigTriad’s was Junior High
• News & Record’s was High School
• Winston-Salem Journal’s was College, Undergrad
• John Robinson, News & Record Editor’s was High School
• Ken Otterbourg, Winston-Salem Journal Editor’s was Junior High School

Hat tip to Lex Alexander, a fellow Junior High level blogger, who pointed me to the index.

Wait, how do the websites for some of our Presidential candidates fare?

The Democrats, in their current place in the polls (11/5/07), followed by the % of votes they would get:

• Hillary Clinton’s was Elementary School (44%)
• Barack Obama’s was Elementary School (25%)
• John Edwards’ was Elementary School  (14%)
• Bill Richardson’s was Genius (4%)
• Joe Biden’s was Genius (3%)
• Chris Dodd’s was Genius (2%)
• Dennis Kucinich’s was Genius (2%)
• Mike Gravel’s was Elementary School (1%)

The Republicans, in their current place in the polls (11/5/07), followed by the % of votes they would get:

• Rudy Giuliani’s was Genius (28%)
• Fred Thompson’s was Elementary School  (19%)
• John McCain’s was Junior High School (16%)
• Mitt Romney’s was Elementary School (11%)
• Mike Huckabee’s was College Undergrad (10%)
• Ron Paul’s was Junior High School (5%)
• Duncan Hunter’s was High School (4%)
• Tom Tancredo’s was unreadable (the site barfed on this one) (3%)

Obviously if you’re a Democrat you want to speak to your base as if they’re a bunch of fourth graders.  Republicans seem not to be put off by candidates using words with multiple syllables, but given Thompson’s late entry in the race and subsequent rocketing up the charts we might see that members of both political bases need to be fed their pablum in monosyllabic addresses.  In case you haven’t guessed this last paragraph is my attempt to move this blog up to the relatively austere heights of high school discourse.  What-e-v-e-r.