I largely agree with Ian, with one exception. The biggest losers are the members of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Had Trump not killed 250K people and shown himself to be a intemperate monster, he would have secured nothing short of a landslide victory. This is a center-right country...

I’m thinking of subscribing to the Economist again, just because they are lowering my stress level:

https://projects.economist.com/us-2020- ... /president

I’d propose next Sunday. By then we should know whether we need to find some good champagne for 1/20/21 or some cyanide.

Hm$

It’s wonderful having a mathematician in the group. Thanks Bill.

Howard

The fly made its appearance because it is Pence’s one black friend.

Hm$

Let me summarize Jim’s very worthwhile post:

This fascist lives or dies, eh, whatever...
Fuck this mother fucker ....
Fuck you, Donald Trump...

Amen to that.

We can all recognize that the country would be better off with him dead, without actually wishing him dead.

Hm$

Congrats guys! I was wondering when Nalan was going to make an honest man out of you, Michael.

Hm$

I am just going to throw this out there. For a purchase price of about $500K, one can buy a place in Portugal, get a resident visa and be only 5 years and a rudimentary test of Portuguese away from EU citizenship.

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No idea on the economics. I suspect that a winery in a remote village in Alsace is not able to game the market in any meaningful way.

Hm$

As one of our resident Alsace aficionados, I will tell you that reading that Mader is turning their wine into hand sanitizer is akin to reading that Leoville Barton’s vintage was lost at sea. These folks make a Riesling from the Rosacker vineyard that other vignerons point to as in a class by itself...

Just opened the 2nd bottle of my stash. I agree, it’s quite enjoyable.

Hm$

The zoom tasting was really great. It was wonderful seeing you all.

Hm$

1995 Pichon Lalande would be my first pick
2003 Montrose

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