How Far Does $1,000 Take You on a Trip to London? We Found Out. The challenge: three days in the British capital with a teenager on spring break — Tom Vanderbilt. Thanks, Julie! wsj.com

The GOP Is Way Too Fucking Excited About Using US Troops On American Protestors. By Mike Masnick. techdirt.com

Currently reading: Washington by Ron Chernow 📚I was going after Chernow’s new Mark Twain biography. I was a Mark Twain fanatic in my teens and 20s and read several biographies of him. I was eager to see what was new to be said about Mark Twain.

But I stumbled across this book and realized that I do not know a lot about George Washington’s life, so I decided to read this instead.

Julie and I went to visit Mount Vernon and Monticello in November 2016, and I thought then how those two presidents stood as Titans compared to the 🤡 who was then about to enter the White House. Everything that’s happened in the last nine years has confirmed that opinion.