Harper's Index: the Bush Years
Here's Harper's Index for the Bush years -- some real gems here:
Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who said they hoarded Cipro so as to avoid an “ironic death”: 1Harper’s Index (Thanks, Mr Jalopy!)Estimated total calories members of Congress burned giving Bush’s 2002 State of the Union standing ovations: 22,000
Percentage of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 50
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I LOLed!
Very funny.
And then cried. It's not all Anthrax jokes, let me tell you.
"Percentage of Americans in 2006 who believed that U.S. Muslims should have to carry special I.D.: 39"
Yeah, I decided not to click on the link because it'd just depress me.
As I type this, there are five days, twenty-three hours, and 52 minutes left... and I despair in knowing that even Snippy's departure won't undo the evil he's wrought.
Why do I get the feeling that this is the first, last, and only week in which the Bush administration is going to be taken to task in the mainstream media?
I knew he was the anti-christ but, apparently Bush has the same approval rating as Stalin
Average percentage of Americans who approved of the job Bush was doing during his second term: 37
Percentage of Russians today who approve of the direction their country took under Stalin: 37
Huh? I thought metal bandsmen were supposed to die ironic deaths!
--Charlie
Thank god it's practically over. Let's just hope the new adminstration (and legislature) repudiates these transgressions.
This is a nice counter-point to the "last press conference".
Will history be kind to Bush II?
Hey, Stalin just won a contest as third greatest Russian ever. He might have taken the gold, but the people running the contest ended up doing a counter-campaign against him in order to minimize the embarrassment.
@3, Sean Eric Fagan: That means only 5 more days to declare martial law! I mean, there's already NorthCom, the 1st Brigade Combat Team (although I heard there were 2 more added), and all the laws passed to make it *really* easy to declare... but I'm being far too cynical and chaos-loving. Things like that, much like natural disasters and city-destroying monsters, are much more fun on TV and in my imagination than they are in real life.
More on-topic: There was an issue of Harpers' commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Index that was considerably longer than usual. Is this that?
@9 And Stalin would have won, obviously, but not because Russians really really really approves of his actions (although some, of course, do).
It was unevitable; in the moment he madi it to the first page, it was set in stone.
Because it was a very stupid, tastles, and overall idiotic contest; it came through many mass-vote attacks and mass emails "let's vote for Stalin, komerades!".
It was th state-approved, state-funded contest, after all. "Take that! And try not to lose your face."
Everybody lost.
And right now there is another contest, Vote For Patriarch.
And the majority of votes, about 80%, is for Mitropolit of Tokyo and all-Japan Daniil (real name Ikuo Nushiro). Oh yeah.
So it goes.
Bah.
Stalin was a psycho jerk, but he was the man in overall charge when the Red Army destroyed Hitler's Wehrmacht.
In Russia, that might still count for something, eh? After all, Hitler's war cost the Russians 20 million dead.
In contrast, Americans seem to think all FDR did was the New Deal, and forget his role as Victor of WWII.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/18/prosecutions/