Glowering and patriotic though you may be, Mr. Eagle, you're fair game to Dubya.

Today, for the first time in weeks, George W. Bush edged his way back into the headlines with the announcement of his 14 latest pardons. They mostly cover drug charges, environmental infractions and white collar crime, three things the Bush clan has never seemed very averse to.

Most notable among these are pardons of erstwhile Fugees collaborator John Forté’s drug conviction, and unknown Leslie Owen Collier’s conviction for unauthorized pesticide use which resulted in the death of a bald eagle. Bush thereby seems to be disputing the validity of one of our most sacred lists here at Listicles, the Endangered Species List, but that’s a gripe for a future post. For now we’ll gauge Bush’s pardons against Time’s list of the 10 Most Notorious Presidential Pardons. Analysis after the jump.

Many of these pardons are sweeping and symbolic moves to repair wounds exceeding the breaking of laws:

• Andrew Johnson pardoned citizens of the Confederate States in 1865
• Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam Draft Dodgers in 1977
• Ronald Reagan pardoned Mark Felt (Deep Throat) and Edward Miller in 1981

Others, meanwhile, are totally ridiculous:

• Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich for nearly $50 million in tax evasions during his last week as president.
• George Bush Senior neutered the entire Iran-Contra disaster by pardoning former Secretary of Defence, Caspar Weinberger in 1992.
• Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, likely losing himself the next election in the process.

Dubya will have to pull some ridiculous pardons to crack that list. The hardworking news team at the Onion News Network have this suggestion for an appropriate way to kick the presidential pardon season into overdrive: