Last night, our benevolent dictator delivered his annual status report to the people. It was, of course, more of the same war- and fear-mongering. It’s hard to get a sense of what past State of the Union speeches were like, but this site offers a visualization of the language of every SOTU speech ever. It makes it easy to see, for example, that the reading level of SOTU speeches today is much lower than than the speeches of yesteryear, and that recent SOTU speeches are often 2 or 3 times longer than the the speeches of yore. And the more you play with the visualized info, the more you find. Pretty fucking interesting.