Almost as important as oil prices

The Manolo takes a historical look at presidential hair. I’m quoting the best part, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go read the whole thing.

Indeed, it is the little known historic fact that it was the hair and not the General Jackson who led the charge at the Battle of New Orleans. That morning, the Andrew Jackson was sick in his tent with the fever, when his impetuous hair, fearing disaster, seized the initiative, mounted the General’s horse and rode into battle, waving its little sword and shouting exhortations to the men.

Jackson, when he had heard what his hair had done, struggled to his feets grabbed the spare mount and raced toward the lines, arriving just in time to see the redcoats being chased bodily by his magnificent hair into the brambles and the bushes where the rabbits couldn’t go.