On April 1, the widely read History News Network (HNN) Web site announced the results of a survey it conducted among historians.
In what was, alas, not an April Fool's joke, they asked the historians whether they considered the presidency of George W. Bush a success or a failure.
Out of 109 historians surveyed, 107 said they viewed the Bush presidency as a failure, although only 67 of them classified him as "the worst president in the nation's history" — a result that left even me wondering whether those respondents might have been a tad overcritical of the 42nd President of the United States.