Meet Energy Hog

Last month the Bush administration unveiled a long-term clean-energy and conservation program complete with cartoon mascot. The Department of Energy (working with consumer group Alliance to Save Energy) introduced a campaign featuring Energy Hog, a sneering swine in leather jacket and jeans who, as a local rag put it, "will join McGruff the Crime Dog and Woodsy Owl in the pantheon of animated mascots failing to solve national problems."

Well, hey! If you can beat it, make fun of it.