Photo of the Day

No. 500

a future president?

George Armstrong Custer, as a 19 year old cadet at West Point, 1858. He graduated at the bottom of the class of 1861. He was the class clown who never prepared for class and received countless demerits for a wide range of rules infractions.

We revile Custer now, and the knowledge that he once occupied the pinnacle of the nation’s estee…