Will's Good Idea for the 4th of July

The title is misleading. We don't have a good idea. Happy July 4th.

[Bloody ungrateful Colonials. If it weren't for us you'd all be speaking French-Ed]

We love it when you people get snooty about the Revolution. 

[You mean Insurrection-Ed]

Ooooo, pouty English woman, you know we like that.

[Knobhead-Ed]

We'll be barbequing and setting off some fireworks like it's Diwali.

There's only one alternate history we know of imagining the Revolution never happened, Harry Turtledove's The Two Georges. We've never read it. Here's an article we did 15 years ago for History Magazine about the Whigs in Parliament at the time. Fun stuff.*

Twenty years ago today, we saw the New York Yankees play the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. 

We were a few weeks away from moving out of Northern Virginia. Back then we'd catch half a dozen games a season at Camden Yards. Here's the game. Somewhere we have a few pics. Mrs. Stroock suggested we get sushi, to which we replied, 'Now our boys didn't raise the Stars and Stripes atop Mt. Surabachi for you to getting Sushi on the Fourth of July.' 

Certainly not while seeing the New York Yankees in Baltimore.  Sushi? We might as well have had tea and crumpets and talked about the latest episode of East Enders. 

[Why you....American-Ed]

Don't make us go all Meghan Markle on you.

*Looks like the link is dying. Maybe I'll put the article up somewhere myself.