Leonidas would have loved Arkansas

Been a bit out of touch. Meaning that, for family reasons, I spent several days in southwestern Arkansas. Nashville, Ark., in fact, which is near Hope, Bill Clinton’s birthplace, not that far from Hot Springs , which is where Clinton grew up.

And it’s only a couple of hours from Little Rock, which is where the Clinton Presidential Library sits on the banks of the Arkansas River – like a big ol’ double-wide .

That, at least, is what a young woman told us in a Little Rock wine bar, which had been open for just three weeks and served up some fairly drinkable barberas and malbecs.

So I haven’t yet seen “300,” the movie that is upsetting Iran more than a Bush family reunion. That’s first on my to-do list, though.