Last month's Harper's Index says it all. Some of my favorites:
Percentage of Americans who said in November that the Valerie Plame leak scandal was of “great importance”: 51
Percentage who said, two months before President Nixon resigned, that Watergate was “very serious”: 49
Percentage who said it was “just politics”: 42
Years since a White House official as senior as I. Lewis Libby had been indicted while in office: 130
Years after resigning that the official, Orville Babcock, drowned while trying to build a lighthouse: 9
Percentage approval rating of Bill Clinton the day after impeachment and George W. Bush in November, respectively: 73, 37
Percentage of Russians today who approve of the direction their country took under Stalin: 37
Number of weather futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the first nine months of last year: 612,000 Number in all of 2004: 120,000 Number of small businesses that applied for U.S. disaster loans after last fall’s hurricanes: 244,602 Percentage that had been approved as of mid-November: 3 Tons of hurricane-related waste still waiting to be hauled away in Louisiana: 22,000,000 Tons of waste produced by New York City each year: 8,500,000 What country am I in again?
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