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Yours portly is ready to deliver the content his readers, paid and otherwise, crave:  commentary on the new digital SAT administration.

That’s right, friends, yours portly is spending this beautiful Saturday morning in a room with kids taking the SAT.  I’m specifically in the extended testing room, which is a long administration but means more money.  The idea of being paid to sit here and write self-indulgent blog posts while three kids gawk on standardized test questions fills me with the kind of glee that only union workers and government bureaucrats feel:  the glee of getting one over on the rest of society by suckling at the bloated teat of an inefficient system.

But as I wipe the corrosive milkfat from my chubby cheeks, I must take a moment to do the unthinkable:  I must extol the virtues of this new digital administration.

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