Jonah, no, I know you weren’t trying to pick a fight. I truly figured that this Corner ought to represent one of the deeper reservoirs of support for Dubya–and that I’d accordingly get a few readers trying to hand me my head for attacking NCLB. What has happened instead? My inbox has filled up with emails all of which have more or less the same subject heading, viz, “I’m Jonah’s Kind of Reader.”

You were right, my friend, and I was wrong, and nothing could gratify me more than learning that the readers of this happy Corner are even more wary of big gummint than I’d supposed.

P.S. Drudge carried a report the other day about global warming in Alaska. Were you able to work on your tan up in Fairbanks?