Re: Well done Obama!
 

I had a 1989 Chateau Haut Brion Bordeaux last night. Holy crap.

Re: Well done Obama!
 

Tell me more, tell me more.......


ps: It is almost redundant to include the word Bordeaux. fyi, fwiw.

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My godfather's 70th birthday party. He is remodeling the house and decided that it was finally time to drink the case he had sitting in the cellar since 1994, since everything has to move for the remodel. I think we all went through the case. Exquisite.

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I'm in Memphis and went to one of the most powerful museums I've ever been to. The National civil Rights Museum is built around the Motel where King was shot and the building where Ray shot him from. I hadn't known that at all. From some angles you would think you are simply approaching a beat up motel.

so then you walk up through the exhibits about all the history, especially the 50s and 60s until you get to the end, which is his hotel room and the room next door and you can step onto the balcony (at least I think you can- the door was locked, but I unlocked it) next to the chained off area where he was shot. across the way is a building where Ray's room is recreated including the window he shot out of. you can look out the windows and read all the conspiracy theories and the evidence against Ray.

I'm not big on museums or reading exhibits, but being in the actual spot where history happened was very powerful. I can only equate it to Anne Frank House.

1 weird thing- after the killing they closed off King's room but it continued as a motel for over a decade.

2 thought provoking thing- on the corner is a woman on a protest vigil- she has been there for 13 years. The neighborhood is changing from lower rent to gated communities and arty bars, galleries and restaurants.

she blames the museum as starting the gentrification and makes the point the MLK would not approve of what is happening to the neighborhood. of course, Ray picked the location for the murder, so I'm not sure that a fair criticism.

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Damn. That is great. But a case of Wine and you're not sleeping in more today? How many of you were there?

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There were 24 of us. A case of Chateau Montelena Chardonnay (I think 2006) and a case of champagne (I can't remember which) were also served, though obviously, most people stuck with the red.

Surprisingly, no one really had the wine 'flu at brunch on Sunday.

Re: You (all) lie!
 

For Sebby:

Jonathan Chait

Re: You (all) lie!
 

She's been protesting a gentrification that's taken 13 years? Think of the amount of good she might have done somewhere in that amount of time. I think MLK might have been sickened by the sheer opportunity cost.

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Now that all the Article III judgeships and USAs have been appointed (cough), the President is moving on and has appointed infographics hero Edward Tufte to an advisory panel on the recovery. Expect Ty's future bar graphs and Venn diagrams to have a heartbreaking beauty and simplicity.

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News Corp bought Weyerhauser?

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Bizarre tweet of the day (so far):

The mind boggles.

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That's nada. Think about how many eArnest pb posts Ty hAs made over the years.

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What's bizarre about a freshman congressman--whose political career is essentially dead--taking a parting shot on the biggest stage he can find? Dude needs to find a job soon, and it seems unlikely that he'd get much help from the Dems.

And, as absurd as it is, it's a step up from the milquetoast we're getting (and will continue to get) from Evan Bayh. Crash and burn is at least entertaining.

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If I've got it correctly, he resigned abruptly under circumstances that put him in a terrible light. A parting shot? Seems like the guy was running for the exit to get out of the spotlight. If Pelosi really owned him, she'd have him stick around to vote for HCR first.

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When we say, with some evidence mind you, that you have 71,815 posts on these boards, you say there's an odometer error in there somewhere. But the fact you would need to say so, and that it seems strange to none of us that you would feel the need to say so, speaks more volumes than what you've posted in all these years.