Harper's Magazine has an index at the front of eash monthly issue with stats about the world around us -- here's Harper's Index for the Bush years, including these outstanding selections:
Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who said they hoarded Cipro so as to avoid an “ironic death”: 1
Total amount the Bush campaign paid Enron and Halliburton for use of corporate jets during the 2000 recount: $15,400
Minimum number of laws that Bush signing statements have exempted his administration from following: 1,069
Minimum number of close-up photographs of Bush’s hands owned by his current chief of staff, Josh Bolten: 4
Minimum amount that religious groups received in congressional earmarks from 2003 to 2006: $209,000,000
Amount such groups received during the previous fourteen years: $107,000,000
Percentage of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 50
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
(Hat tip to Boing Boing.)