I have heard a rumor that during his college years (at Yale, I think), our current president pledged a fraternity that is known for giving all of their new brothers a small brand or tattoo with the letters of the frat during initiation.
And although W. has no comment, that someone else from his pledge class confirmed that he has one.
Can anyone confirm any bit of this?
Bush is notoriously a member of Yale’s Skull and Bones Society, Yale’s oldest and most prestigious fraternity. I don’t know if there are any tattoo initiation rites, I always though of that as something only us plebians did. The Skull and Bones Society has raised college fraternity secretiveness to an art form.
Would YOU want to screw with a fraternal organization that effectively runs the nation?
I think it says “Dyslexics of the world, untie!”
Bush has a small brand on his butt, given with a coat hanger, from his days at Yale: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072799.htm (near the lower middle).
From the article: Bush was quoted in the New York Times defending the branding of fraternity pledges with a hot coat hanger, saying the resulting wounds resembled “only a cigarette burn.”
This is different from his days spent masturbating in a crypt for the Skull and Bones Society, also at Yale. Oh those frat boys.
Hm, I think my fraternity would take extreme exception to someone masturbating in anything related to us. Then again, we are pretty tame, as far as fraternities go. The most hazing we do is weeks of forced labor in the form of repairing our house. 