The latest craze in blogging...

is calculating your blog's readability indices. The Gunning-Fog index, in particular, is a measure of the number of years of schooling that your audience is likely to require to understand your content. Vacuum Energy, with the exception of this and subsequent posts, scored a Gunning-Fog index of 11.69, putting it roughly on the level of the Wall Street Journal in readability.

Some comparative ratings reported by ProfessorBainbridge.com are:
ProfessorBainbridge: 11.57
Instapundit: 8.53
The Corner: 9.37
Hugh Hewitt: 10.98
Volokh: 11.03
Kevin Drum: 12.10