Everything goes better with Tony Kornheiser, right?

Well, how about the SAT’s and the Washington Post?

A loyal Extreme Mortman reader has us wondering that, with Kornheiser having effectively checked out from the Post.

What’s left of the Washington Post without Tony?  How will the kiddies learn to be funny now — or learn anything at all?
The answer may lie in something called Stanley Kaplan.  Our correspondent notes that the Post has merged with the SAT test industry and sends along this bootleg copy of the 2008 SAT test questions. A sampling:

Bob Woodward’s sources are:

A) top White House officials
B) senior government advisers
C) so above reproach they require no verification by anyone
D) cited in a special sidebar box on the front page above the fold

You have to buy a newspaper that costs 35 cents in a sidewalk vending machine. Which combinations of coins should you use?

A) One quarter and one dime
B) Seven nickels
C) Two dimes and three nickels
D) Two quarters, because the online paper is drowning in red ink

Gene Weingarten is to funny as:

A) Richard Cohen is to depersonalization
B) Bob Levey is to indispensable
C) E.J. Dionne is to fresh thinking

An “Independent Newspaper” properly labels Republicans as:

A) Extremist
B) Partisan
C) Obstructionist
D) Hard Right

The same newspaper properly labels Democrats as

A) moderate
B) progressive
C) vigorous
D) posing a serious challenge to GOP hegemony in the suburbs, first in a three-part series

The center of the universe, according to common knowledge, is:

A) The Milky Way galaxy
B) The Solar System
C) Earth
D) 1150 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20071

Ah yes, embracing the SAT industry.  Now that’s maturing in office — an honorific the Post typically reserves for Republicans who act like Democrats.