Tastemaker

Finally, I've remembered to actually create a POLITICS category. And in honor of politics as a topic, may i mention my delight at catching the Saturday Today Show's very early morning interview of Pres. Bush's 19-year old nephew! Granted, it was 6:30 am on a saturday, but Young Bush managed to make it into an involuntary political DISASTER. Ah, the joy I felt as he mentioned that he'd pulled an all-nighter, then blinked too much, slurred his words, and lamely derided the public at large for not supporting the now-defunct Dubai Ports World deal. He said Uncle George hadn't called him to thank him for the support, but that he knew he was a very busy man.

Now here's the truly weird part: I can't remember Young Bush's first name. He looks like the kid who plays Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies. But his name?!?! I've googled. I've surfed the Today Show site. I've browsed the Bush family tree on Wikipedia, but I can't find this kid anywhere, nor any mention of the interview.

It's too weird. How do you lose track of a hungover teenage carrot-top trying to flirt with Campbell Brown at 6:30 in the morning? Was he a phony? Or is he now in some private Bush family jail in eastern Europe?

Anyhoo, while trying to find some delicious tidbit on the disappearing Young Bush, i did come across some other Bush family facts that are SO much fun to mull over. In no particular order:

Marvin Bush ( GW's brother) was a director of Securacom, also known as Stratesec, from 1993 until fiscal year 2000. Said company was publicly traded and backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corporation. Securacom/Stratesec was in charge of security at the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport, and United Airlines on September 11, 2001.

Also check out Noelle Bush’s MUGSHOT

And a little further back in time: John Hinckley's father was one of George H.W. Bush's bigger supporters in his campaign against Reagan in the 1980 Republican presidential primaries; John Hinckley Sr.'s Vanderbilt Energy was threatened with a $2-million fine the morning of the assassination attempt. John Jr.'s older brother Scott Hinckley and Neil Bush had a dinner appointment for the next day. -Reported March 31, 1981 edition of the Houston Post, and picked up by AP, UPI, NBC News and Newsweek.

xox, Stabb