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- 05:23, 5 January 2021 Personal investing (hist) [1,042 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://earlyretirementnow.com/2020/11/09/what-is-wrong-with-target-date-funds/#more-61871 What’s wrong with Target Date Funds?]. My comment: {{Quotation| Great post! I’m...")
- 14:28, 4 January 2021 Quotations (hist) [140,061 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Travis '''Dawry''' @tdawry {{Quotation|<br> In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it.<br> In a programming language you see the code but the data sits beh...")
- 14:23, 4 January 2021 Python (hist) [7,942 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "https://amypeniston.com/ditching-excel-for-python/ Ditching Excel for Python – Lessons Learned from a Legacy Industry, Published: December 30, 2020, is about how in the...")
- 08:19, 4 January 2021 Inequality (hist) [3,261 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "What's wrong with income inquality? Or, put differently, why is income equality desirable? This cannot be taken as a basic good that doesn't need explanation. There's nothin...")
- 06:48, 4 January 2021 Diplomats (hist) [355 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[http://robertfay.com/2020/09/in-search-of-the-writer-diplomat-tradition/|In Search of the Writer-Diplomat Tradition]] Robert Fay September 25, 2020. {{Quotation| "Tadié refe...")
- 06:39, 3 January 2021 The Press as an arm of the Democratic Party (hist) [14,991 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The American mainstream press is in general an arm of the Democratic Party, aptly named "fake news". Some of it is positive fakery, as in the multi-year attemp to brand Trum...")
- 05:53, 2 January 2021 Covid (hist) [592 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/influenza-levels-continue-cratering-some-cite-covid-measures-even-covid The missing flu riddle: 'Influenza has been rena...")
- 13:54, 1 January 2021 Rhetorical Phrases (hist) [1,012 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is for potentially useful phrases. <br> "Epater les wokesoisie"")
- 06:14, 1 January 2021 Free Trade (hist) [2,141 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Free trade is a good thing. Paul Krugman, who got a Nobel for being the biggest name in The New International Trade with its idea that economies of scale meant tariffs could b...")
- 18:03, 31 December 2020 Hyperlinks and the List of Authorities in Legal Briefs (hist) [85 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[http://rasmusen.org/published/Rasmusen-2020-InReFlynn-Rasmusen-amicus.pdf Example.]")
- 15:47, 29 December 2020 Forgiveness versus Justice (hist) [1,850 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "We must forgive unconditionally. This is actually one of the commands, I think, that is for our own good as well as for the good of others and God's glory. If I don't forgive,...")
- 09:15, 29 December 2020 The twelve days of Christmas (hist) [2,089 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "These are notes for celebrating the twelve days of Christmas. If anyone would help by using the Word Track Changes feature and sending me the improved file, I would be most gr...")
- 15:56, 28 December 2020 The economics profession (hist) [957 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[http://macromomblog.com/2020/12/01/economic-truly-is-a-disgrace/ Claudia Sahm's 2020 firing from her think tank job for writing a blog post critical of the economics establi...")
- 15:30, 28 December 2020 Church Buildings (hist) [494 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "https://www.theamericanconservative.com/prufrock/norways-stave-churches/ Photos of Norway's Stave churches.")
- 07:50, 26 December 2020 Card games (hist) [2,313 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Goofspiel Card Game and Golf and Oh Phooey and Whist and Bridge and Poker are all good games. Euchre and Napoleon are not quite so good. 500 Rummy might be added to m...")
- 07:47, 26 December 2020 Quotation style (hist) [4,221 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "We must be accurate but not pedantic in quotations. Always, your thought should be on what the reader needs to accurately and smoothly comprehend what the original was saying...")
- 07:01, 26 December 2020 Jokes (hist) [33,430 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Why should you eat eggs benedict on a hubcap for Christmas dinner? <br> --because there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.")
- 06:15, 26 December 2020 Words (hist) [36,654 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Kairos.''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos|Kairos:] καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to...")
- 17:48, 25 December 2020 The Goofspiel Card Game (hist) [2,276 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofspiel This game is quite fun for 4 players, using two decks of cards. I think it would be fun to let the dealer pick the speci...")
- 06:08, 24 December 2020 Short Circuits (hist) [7,825 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "I never really understood '''short circuits''' and blowing fuses with too many things plugged in until I was 61 years old. Yes, I knew that the problem was too much electric...")
- 17:03, 13 October 2020 Elections (hist) [28,450 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/four-stolen-elections-the-vulnerabilities-absentee-and-mail-ballots Four Stolen Elections: The Vulnerabilities of Absentee...")
- 14:15, 13 October 2020 The Primacy of Politics in Classical Greece (hist) [4,073 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[ https://www.jstor.org/stable/1862553 "The Primacy of Politics in Classical Greece"], by Paul A. Rahe, ''The American Historical Review,'' Vol. 89, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 2...")
- 11:05, 13 October 2020 Mushrooms (hist) [5,153 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Notes on mushrooms. ---- October 12, 2020, we found that a big dead tree in the secret garden at the farm is generating large fungus growths. The one we could reach was rea...")
- 11:03, 13 October 2020 Prayer (hist) [736 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Why pray? The straightforward answer is that the Bible tells us to. But why does it tell us to pray? There are many reasons. One is that if you pray, you become more conscious...")
- 05:57, 13 October 2020 Innovation (hist) [2,649 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Notes on innovation. ---- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25704030 How Do Revolutions Emerge? Lessons from the Fosbury Flop]: {{Quotation| Only in the 1700s did an amateur ice...")
- 16:07, 12 October 2020 Units of Measurement (hist) [386 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " This is for units of measuremnent. ---- "75% of an American football field or 16 tennis courts in a 4x4 formation. If that doesn't help, consider a car park containing 150...")
- 06:25, 11 October 2020 Good Churches in Various Towns across America (hist) [150 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://harvestchapel.net/ Harvest Chapel], Sandwich, Illinois. [https://trinityreformed.org/ Trinity Reformed Church], Bloomington, Indiana. ----")
- 06:21, 11 October 2020 Books To Read (hist) [5,484 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''General View of the Criminal Law of England'', James Stephen (1863). ''Memorabilia,'' Xenophon. ''An Essay on the History of Civil Society,'' Adam Ferguson. -----")
- 06:12, 11 October 2020 Authority (hist) [3,940 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Do modern Americans really have no respect for authority? I think not. We must consider carefully what authority is, though. Clearly, the modern Establishment American do...")
- 05:43, 11 October 2020 Books for My Children To Read (hist) [323 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "These are some books everyone should read. The Strategy of Conflict, by Thomas Schelling. The Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, by J...")
- 19:52, 10 October 2020 Poems (hist) [23,283 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ---- Longfellow's [[https://www.bartleby.com/102/62.html Excelsior]: {{Quotation| THE SHADES of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who...")
- 16:42, 10 October 2020 Letter to People Who Might Vote for Biden (hist) [2,657 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html#! Joe Bid...")
- 17:51, 9 October 2020 Best Things of 2020 (hist) [5,554 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "I write these up for my Christmas cards, but I will start my draft list now. 1. Knife on a keychain. The one with the scissors, blade, spike, bottle opener, tweezers....")
- 07:32, 8 October 2020 Universities (hist) [3,733 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Here I will put links to entries on various university subjects (none right now) and notes. ---- Universities don't care about teaching quality. What they care about is keepi...")
- 06:59, 8 October 2020 Coding (hist) [1,346 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Use simple, basic, commands in general. REsort to fancy commands that do a lot at once only if you have a good reason, not just to write shorter or neater loking or fancier or...")
- 06:56, 8 October 2020 The Prosperity of Ching China (hist) [3,425 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The conventional wisdom is that in the 1800's, China was a disaster. This, I suspect, is false, and scholars have heavily confused Seeming with Being-- even good scholars. A l...")
- 13:47, 5 October 2020 Gardening (hist) [2,037 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " This is for notes on gardening in Indiana. ---- 2020, October 5. We have not had a frost yet. The tomatoes are still going strong, and the okra, and the peppers. This year,...")
- 07:08, 5 October 2020 Reading (hist) [1,421 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " This page is for notes on Reading. ---- Whenever you read a book, you should write notes about it. Mediawiki software is good for that. Keeping track of your notes is imp...")
- 07:07, 5 October 2020 Talking (hist) [778 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is for notes on talking, on giving economics presentations. ---- SLIDES. Latex works fine for making slides. Beamer is commonly used, but why? It uglifies your Latex w...")
- 05:53, 5 October 2020 Masks as Protection from Infection (hist) [6,700 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " [https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/ Mask Facts], AAPS, extracts without indication here: {{Quotation| A COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) particle is 0.125 micrometers/microns (µm); i...")
- 16:23, 4 October 2020 Recycling (hist) [1,063 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " September 21, 2020 [https://quillette.com/2020/09/21/as-city-budgets-shrink-its-time-to-rethink-recycling-programs/ As City Budgets Shrink, It’s Time to Rethink Recycling...")
- 20:49, 3 October 2020 Ecclesiology (hist) [11,875 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "1. Should we pray holding up our hands? 2. Should everyone clap or nobody clap? 3. Should musicians be in the front of the congregation, or behind? Maybe try Summa Theol...")
- 18:31, 3 October 2020 Robert Morrison wrote two papers in the Chinese Repository (hist) [919 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Morrison, Robert. 1832. [https://ia802809.us.archive.org/11/items/chinesereposito10unkngoog/chinesereposito10unkngoog.pdf "Worshipping at the Tombs,"] ''Chinese Repository,'...")
- 07:27, 3 October 2020 The National Anthem as Idolatry (hist) [19,661 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " I am very bothered by the high school custom of standing before a sports event starts, putting your hand on your chest respectfully, turning to face the flag, and singing a s...")
- 05:57, 3 October 2020 Testing for Covid-19 (hist) [5,601 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/23/fast-low-cost-coronavirus-testing-avert-new-wave-covid-19/ Fast, low-cost testing is essential for averting a second wave of Covid-19] By...")
- 07:28, 2 October 2020 Places to Go (hist) [926 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "---- [https://visitindiana.com/blog/index.php/2020/06/02/2020-outdoor-adventure-in-indiana/ The 20 IN 20: 20 Places to Plan Your Next Outdoor Adventure in Indiana] By Josh Als...")
- 07:27, 2 October 2020 Articles to Read (hist) [397 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ---- Raising revenue in the British empire, 1870–1940: how ‘extractive’ were colonial taxes? Ewout Frankema Journal of Global History / Volume 5 / Issue 03 / November 2...")
- 05:45, 2 October 2020 Notes on Thinking (hist) [13,348 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "---- Andrew Gelman [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/04/28/whats-important-thing-statistics-thats-not-textbooks/ says]: {{Quotation| Statistics does not require ra...")
- 07:42, 1 October 2020 Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2020 (hist) [264 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This page is for candidates for my annual Best Dozen Articles list that I send out with my Christmas cards and my Dozen Best Things of the Year list. Richard Hamming (1986)...")
- 07:12, 1 October 2020 Music (hist) [22,623 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "
 <strong>ANONYMOUS.</strong> The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Va6yxMru9jE&feature=emb_title" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> L...")
