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What Is The Point Of John Bolton?

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I've mentioned here that for part of my adolescence, I lived with my family in Bethesda, which is one of the wealthiest places in the US, with a median household income in recent years about $190,000. In comparison, the median household income for Beverly Hills is about $127,000; the median household income for Greenwich, CT is about $136,000. The news photos of yesterday morning's FBI raid on John Bolton's home in Bethesda really took me back: that could have been my street and my neighborhood. I went to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, whose team is the Barons. (This wasn't the monogram when I went there; at that time, it was more like the mustachioed Monopoly man, but the point is the same.) Bethesda has its own entry in the Urban Dictionary : Person from Bethesda: Hi, I'm from Bethesda. Person Not from Bethesda: Hi, you must be a rich snobby [redacted]. PFB: Well yeah kind of, but at least I'm not from Potomac where it's illegal t...