OK, quick: Who's the current president of the United States?

If you guessed "George W. Bush," you're right! If not, you're not alone. In a recent surveying asking that same question, Americans didn't do so well…

* 41% named Barack Obama
* 34% named John McCain
* 12% had no opinion
* 9% named George W. Bush
* 4% named Joe the Plumber
* 2% named Marc Summers from "Double Dare"

Anyway, despite his lack of presence in the all-consuming 2008 election, it turns out that Bush still is the president, and he's making the most out of his final months in office. He has one last mission to accomplish before he's done: screwing up the environment even more than he already has!

As the U.S. presidential candidates sprint toward the finish line, the Bush administration is also sprinting to enact environmental policy changes before leaving power.

Whether it's getting wolves off the Endangered Species List, allowing power plants to operate near national parks, loosening regulations for factory farm waste or making it easier for mountaintop coal-mining operations, these proposed changes have found little favor with environmental groups.

How's that for some classic Bush for you? Just when you were starting to get a little nostalgic for the guy, he chops down a forest and then salts the earth so that nothing will ever grow again. What a son of a bitch.

Well, at least he's riding out on the horse he came in on. (Which would be the horse that unilaterally dismantled the Clean Air Act, violated our National Parks, reneged on the Kyoto Protocol, destroyed millions of acres of wetlands, and then died from arsenic in its drinking water — all in its first year in Washington!)