Not quite like Leporello’s tally of Don Giovanni’s efforts in Espana, as more particularly bounded and described by Columbia Professor Lorenzo da Ponte, but for me, a more thrilling triumph.

In three and a half years of this blog’s short but merry life, today marks the fifty-thousand-third view on this blog. From viewers in more than 130 countries, states, provinces, trust territories, semi-autonomous regions. And I’ve picked up 142 followers on the way.

I’ve said before that the blogs of the prominent and famous get that many views in ten seconds every day, and have enough followers to form their own G20 country.

This blog, however, authored by an obscure lawyer, discusses hypertechnical issues in obscure corners of American tax law. Hardly compelling subject matter.

So I may be pardoned a wee gloat.

Now roll on 100,000!