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- 17:42, 22 January 2021 Parler's breach of contract claim (hist) [2,856 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Quotation|The contract at issue is a form contract. And form contracts must be construed “most strongly” against the writer of such contracts—here, AWS. See Pitts v. C...")
- 15:12, 22 January 2021 Parler's tortious interference claim (hist) [1,487 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is a novel case for tortious interference. Ordinarily, the claim is brought when Defendant has blocked a specific deal between Plaintiff and a specific Third Party. Her...")
- 11:00, 21 January 2021 Careful Writing Requires Work (hist) [1,656 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "How shall we deal with parenthetic qualifiers? {{Quotation| (1) You've inspired me to start a webpage collecting examples of poorly designed products, with this as the first...")
- 10:48, 21 January 2021 Badly Designed Products (hist) [926 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "On this page I will collect examples of poorly designed products. {{Quotation| If you designed this hotel light, would you hide the ON button under the arm and also add a se...")
- 10:06, 21 January 2021 Happiness (hist) [2,656 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Quotation| To me, at least (and I can only follow my own nose) happiness presents itself in an aspect that is tripartite. To be happy (reducing the thing to its elementals)...")
- 14:33, 20 January 2021 The Imperial Presidency (hist) [1,140 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==Secret Service Threats]] {{Quotation| The joke prompted an investigation by the Secret Service, and the Associated Press recently got more documents after filing a Freedo...")
- 13:01, 20 January 2021 Riker Book (hist) [4,102 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This page is for notes for my book idea for a sequel to William Riker's The Art of Political Manipulation. ------------------------------- ---------------------------------...")
- 10:57, 20 January 2021 "This Land Is My Land" (hist) [3,339 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "https://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=This_Land_Is_Your_Land&action=edit§ion=2 The Wikipedia article]....")
- 10:39, 20 January 2021 Golf (hist) [938 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lily and Annaliese taught us a variant on Golf that has a million arbitrary rules and so doesn't work, but which shows the potential of adding rules. I should think carefully...")
- 10:16, 20 January 2021 History and Political Tactics for Our Time (hist) [9,067 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Conservatives need to learn from history. In particular, for the situation in 2020 they need to study the Civil Rights Movement and Hitler's Rise to Power. ==The Civil Rig...")
- 08:21, 19 January 2021 Talks: Polarization and Splitting a Pie (January 19, 2021) (hist) [1,725 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==“How Should We Measure Polarization in Congress?”== Slides: https://rasmusen.org/papers/slides/slides_polarization.pdf Handout: https://rasmusen.org/papers/slides/h...")
- 09:20, 18 January 2021 Impeachment (hist) [8,758 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://casetext.com/case/ferguson-v-maddox Ferguson v. Maddox], the Pa Ferguson Texas case from the 1920's, and the [https://lawliberty.org/impeachment-after-leaving-office/...")
- 10:07, 16 January 2021 Christian Business (hist) [112 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "https://religionnews.com/2021/01/15/dave-ramsey-is-tired-of-being-called-a-jerk-for-his-stands-on-sex-and-covid/")
- 12:21, 15 January 2021 Using foreign names of people and countries (hist) [98 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "We shouldn't. Remember how Macaulay, no slouch when it came to languages, wrote about "Lewis XIV".")
- 15:14, 14 January 2021 Politics generally (hist) [1,218 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An example of the liberal move to criminalize the opposition: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/13/flint-water-michigan-governor-snyder-459218 {{Quotation| Former Michigan...")
- 17:11, 12 January 2021 Political philosophy (hist) [653 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Jordan L. Perkins, @jordanlperkins: {{Quotation| Will never get over how, for ToJ era Rawls, human society is basically just a big corporation for generating stuff (not just g...")
- 15:27, 12 January 2021 Nazi Germany (hist) [8,487 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Speer was an idealistic 28-year-old architect who in 1933 became a favorite of Adolf Hitler's and during World War II became minister for the economy and accomplished wonde...")
- 12:32, 12 January 2021 Statistics (hist) [4,201 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "It's curious that with both few observations (n=30) and many (n= 3 million), statistical significance is too lax a standard. Has anyone thought about those problems in conjunc...")
- 08:07, 12 January 2021 Liberals and Beauty (hist) [2,856 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "‘The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed.....was the condemning of the workers to ugliness....formless and ugly surroundings, ugly idea...")
- 17:34, 11 January 2021 Anecdotes (hist) [9,345 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Quotation| Before the refugees could make Gujarat their home, Jaditya Rana, the local monarch, quizzed the Parsis. The story goes that Rana questioned the head priest on ho...")
- 16:11, 11 January 2021 Parler company (hist) [1,672 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://drive.google.com/file/d/10N3_J2fVHxGUYeuc-xL0cRWWVPQylnoM/view Parler v Amazon (2020. Wash. State, 9th circuit) complaint]")
- 18:22, 10 January 2021 Search engines (hist) [183 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Google is leftwing and censors sites it doesn't like. Bing doesn't allow searches that want, for example "before 2021". DuckDuckGo has a stupid name and is bad at finding...")
- 15:20, 9 January 2021 2020 Capitol Crowd (hist) [15,935 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Your edit was saved. 2020 Capitol Mob Jump to navigationJump to search Here’s How the Capitol Mob Violated Federal Criminal Law By Bryce Klehm, Alan Z. Rozenshtein, Jacob Sc...")
- 09:12, 9 January 2021 2020 Capitol Mob (hist) [4,764 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Here’s How the Capitol Mob Violated Federal Criminal Law By Bryce Klehm, Alan Z. Rozenshtein, Jacob Schulz Thursday, January 7, 2021, https://www.lawfareblog.com/heres-how-c...")
- 15:42, 8 January 2021 Ingredients (hist) [1,804 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with " From Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate Monosodium Glutamate:] {{Quotation|It is a popular belief that MSG can cause headaches and other feelin...")
- 15:40, 8 January 2021 Restaurants (hist) [11,197 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Good Bloomington restaurants:''' <br> [http://www.tasteofindiabtown.com/menu/TOI_webmenu_082410.pdf Taste of India] <br> Uptown Cafe<br> [https://www.zmenu.com/lucky-expr...")
- 15:39, 8 January 2021 Foreign Food (hist) [3,207 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Manali's [https://www.cookwithmanali.com/kashmiri-dum-aloo/ Kashmiri Dum Aloo] is a good writeup. I enjoy reading what she writes about food. She puts heart into her food, but...")
- 12:34, 8 January 2021 Refereeing (hist) [97 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/0060ef47b12160b9198302ebdb144dcf-Reviews.html.")
- 08:58, 5 January 2021 Articles to read (hist) [28,378 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom," Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas G. Rawski, Journal of Economic Literature , MARCH 201...")
- 08:45, 5 January 2021 Movies (hist) [13,763 bytes] Rasmusen p1vaim (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Quotation| Several prominent directors of Samurai films and Westerns in the 1950s and 60s shared a mutual admiration and openly made their art with direct reference to one a...")
- 06:23, 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...")
- 15:28, 4 January 2021 Quotations (hist) [139,288 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...")
- 15:23, 4 January 2021 Python (hist) [5,944 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...")
- 09:19, 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...")
- 07:48, 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...")
- 07:39, 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...")
- 06:53, 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...")
- 14:54, 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"")
- 07:14, 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...")
- 19:03, 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.]")
- 16:47, 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,...")
- 10:15, 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...")
- 16:56, 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...")
- 16:30, 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.")
- 08:50, 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...")
- 08:47, 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...")
- 08:01, 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.")
- 07:15, 26 December 2020 Words (hist) [35,337 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...")
- 18:48, 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...")
- 07:08, 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...")