The February Harper's Index is out.

[JohnnyRingo]

It's posted one month behind
Here's a sample:


Number of states where women seeking abortions are required to be told that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer:
3

Number of the eighty-nine experts convened in 2003 by the National Cancer Institute who found any evidence of such a link:
1

Number of black U.S. senators during the entire 1800s, the entire 1900s, and today, respectively:
2, 2, 1

Number of copies of Helping Your Child Learn History destroyed by the Department of Education last summer:
338,500

Cost of "The Sword," an unmanned robo-soldier equipped with a rifle, machine gun, or rocket launcher:
$230,000

Number of these devices the U.S. Army plans to deploy in Iraq this spring:
18

http://www.harpers.org/HarpersIndex2005-02.html

See the archive for previous issues:
http://www.harpers.org/HarpersIndex.html

[Dr Ron]

1. Those bureaucrats meddling in health care

Number of states where women seeking abortions are required to be told that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer:
3


Isn't rules of this type the sort of thing Republicans are always claiming will happen if there is more government involvement in providing medical care? They apparently are willing to comporomise their claimed prnciples where it comes to pandering to the religious right.

[JohnnyRingo]

2. In a Bethlehem minute. n/t