The more important news of the morning is that USPS is ending its Saturday mail service, which saddens me greatly.

Does having more money make you more likely to be a jerk?

Monopoly, the game of where you use cunning, deceit and backdoor deals to ruin your competitors and win all the moneys, will be retiring one of its eight tokens.

I really enjoyed this piece by Christopher Ketcham in Harper's about the origins of the Monopoly board game, specifically, it's iteration as The Landlord's Game before it became a game about owning all the property and leaving your competitors penniless.