Harper’s Index

Harper's have produced "an index" of George W. Bush's career as president of the USA.

It is simultaneously hilarious and chilling.

My "favourite" numbers include...

• Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98
  
• Number of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African men detained in the U.S. in the eight weeks after 9/11: 1,182
  
• Number of them ever charged with a terrorism-related crime: 0
  
• 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

And on it goes...

(via Boing Boing)

Harper’s Index

Harper's have produced "an index" of George W. Bush's career as president of the USA.

It is simultaneously hilarious and chilling.

My "favourite" numbers include...

• Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98
  
• Number of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African men detained in the U.S. in the eight weeks after 9/11: 1,182
  
• Number of them ever charged with a terrorism-related crime: 0
  
• 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

And on it goes...

(via Boing Boing)