FYI, my humble blog is not a place where I will regularly discuss the Resistance, unless it becomes absolutely necessary to do so (let us pray that does not happen). Instead I choose to talk about whatever I am reading or studying, or other events of everyday life here in my nation’s brightest blue state. I won’t let myself be defined entirely by ugliness and despair — that lends victory to tyranny and terrorism.

That wine with George on the label was very good indeed. I learned later that evening from a friend that the same winery sells a different bottle of Zinfandel with Hamilton’s most photogenic face on the label. I would like to hunt it down somehow, partially because I am told it is also high quality.

Read some more this morning about James Madison and the deal to place the capital on the Potomac River. The musical “Hamilton” (of course) fails to mention how very influential Washington was in this deal, perhaps more so than anyone else. The musical also puts the compromise in 1791 somehow, though it took place in the summer of 1790, almost a year before Hamilton began his idiotic affair (in the play, those events are swapped, I’m sure for “dramatic flow”). So in other words, the debt assumption deal really had little if anything to do with his exhaustion and stress leading him into adultery or whatever. He was just kind of a slutty guy with many, many issues around attachments, sex, and coming to the rescue of “helpless” women. And he happened to choose exactly the worst mistress on this occasion.