If you haven’t enjoyed Harper’s Index, you haven’t fully lived. This one covers the W. Bush Era. Here are some beauts:
Year in which a political candidate first sued Palm Beach County over problems with hanging chads: 1984
Years before becoming energy secretary that Spencer Abraham cosponsored a bill to abolish the Department of Energy: 2
Number of Chevron oil tankers named after Condoleezza Rice, at the time she became foreign policy adviser: 1
Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who said they hoarded Cipro so as to avoid an “ironic death”: 1
Minimum number of times that Frederick Douglass was beaten in what is now Donald Rumsfeld’s vacation home: 25
Minimum number of pheasant hunts Dick Cheney has gone on since he shot a hunting companion in 2006: 5
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