Blount is an associate at Casey Quirk, an investment management consultancy, which pays even junior staffers six-figure salaries. (The firm tells its clients how to tell their clients how to manage their money, or something like that.) His Sig Ep brothers are no doubt breathlessly excited about the news — though their description of Blount as a "hottie" leaves their judgment in question.

Update: Apparently Blount was hot in college, according to the Yale Rumpus! Also, he seemed to have horticultural leanings, nudge nudge, wink wink. We think that's how frat boys make marijuana jokes, at any rate.

There's more! The April 2005 issue of Rumpus reported that Blount got rejected from Yale's business school until Barbara's dad wrote him a letter of recommendation — after which he got accepted with one year of free tuition. Also, he belonged to the Yale Potato Sack Relay Team secret society.

(Photo of Bush by New York Social Diary; Blount by AP/Scott Applewhite)

Well, just last week a bunch of publishing hot shots told the New Yorker that the book is unlikely to reveal anything good. Laura lived up to her robotic image in personal meetings:

“We questioned her rigorously, but it was one-word answers. I considered it the worst, or the most frustrating, meeting of its sort that I’ve ever had.” He added, “But she really couldn’t have been nicer.”

We're calling it right now: this book will be the most boring first lady memoir ever. It will be full of sickly sweet platitudes, okay? Although millions of Americans will surely pay $29.95 to hear the inside scoop on this:

The President, Mrs. Bush, Barbara, and Jenna are deeply saddened by the passing of their cat India (“Willie”)...India [was also] affectionately called “Kitty” by the family.

Why so many pseudonyms?

Jeb, the former governor of Florida, is the only one of G. H. W.'s sons to not end up a total embarrassment, but George W., the eldest, cleaned himself up just enough to steal Jeb's thunder when he won the governorship of Texas before Jeb won in Florida. That led to the presidency, and we all know how that ended up! But now Jeb would maybe like to be a Senator, so he can at least stay in the public eye as he works to scrub the Bush name clean once again.

But Bush Sr. acknowledged, on Fox, that while he'd certainly like Jeb to be president some day, we have had maybe one too many Presidents Bush, in modern times, for that to be viable, at the moment.

Bush Sr.'s intelligence and foreign policy pragmatism have made him seem, in retrospect, not so bad, but let us never forget how much his family has hurt the nation (until 2016 or so when we will have all forgotten). Also the Bay of Pigs! That was pretty much his fault.

Our source ran into the 41st prez recently at a Texas restaurant. When the subject of Palin came up during their chat, Bush told of twice phoning her office but never receiving a call back. The first message was left at McCain HQ after she was picked to be Sen. John McCain's veep; the second with the governor's office after the election was over. He shrugged it off as staff error, but our source says he was clearly perplexed.

And yet a Canadian radio DJ pretending to be the President of France got through? Though honestly no one wants to talk to George H. W. Bush, except Bill Clinton, and no one wants to talk to him except Ron Burkle and hot young models and the Saudis.

(Our theory: not "staff error." Bar didn't want him talking to that shiny-haired tramp and made sure his messages never reached their targets.)