Buzzfeed is circulating some hot but hilarious class photos:
When Rick Perry arrived at Texas A&M University in 1968, it was at the end of a summer in which Soviet troops crushed the Prague Spring, protesters at the Democratic National Convention were met by a police riot, and the United States reeled from the twin assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. With its conservative culture, military tradition, and focus on agriculture, few places in the U.S. might have seemed more insulated from the prevailing currents of the age than in College Station, Texas. But A&M was in the midst of its own political awakening …
Also, the parallels with Dubya are getting uncanny:
[Perry] was a member of the Corps of Cadets, a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and one of A&M's five yell leaders (a popular Texas A&M tradition analogous to male cheerleaders).[11] … According to Perry's university transcript, he earned 20 B's, 27 C's, and 9 D's. … Perry was a prankster in college. He once placed chickens in the closet of an upperclassman over Christmas, and also utilized M-80 firecrackers and knowledge of plumbing to frighten students on the toilet.[15]
[I changed my original title for this post, as riding boots don't qualify as even "preppy" jackboots. But I always get a little disturbed by a man in boots that high and jodhpurs.]
The Dish 