In Charlottesville this weekend. We went to a South African restaurant Saturday night, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to try something that’s both familiar and unusual. I didn’t sleep very well, in part because I don’t sleep very well in a different bed. Yes, that makes me a good candidate for travel.

Right now I’m watching Samantha Power on Book TV. Have I told you lately how much I love her? Her and Susan Rice. Pragmatists. We need more of them.

On an unrelated note– I tend to be a fiscal moderate, and I’m pro-free-trade and generally anti-populist. But it seems to me that Robert Reich (former labor secretary) has hit on a good point in this blog post, about how big companies get bailed out by the government, while the general public is left to struggle. I think the true hallmark of capitalism is not the sort of social Darwinism that Republicans see as characteristic of it, but a FREE market– where companies don’t monopolize or abuse legal frameworks to the detriment of the public (aka the market).