Christmas List 2000, Web Version, http://www.rasmusen.org/_amazon/xmas00.htm

• 2. Japanese Law: An Economic Approach, by Minoru Nakazato and J. Mark Ramseyer, 1999, 310 pages, $45.00. Law via stories, which is the way law schools usually teach it, and a good way too.

• 3. Timothy Keller sermons on tape. Pastor Keller, of Manhattan, is wise and engaging in the plain style, and he tackles tough topics.

• 4. The New Yorker cartoon website,Www.newyorker.com/cartoon.html. You can search a huge, though not complete database by keyword, and buy reprint rights if you wish.

• 5. Christ the King Presbyterian Church, 99 Prospect Street, Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This year we've been attending here this half-Brazilian church meeting in an old Catholic building. It's full of energy, sound in doctrine, and has Brazilian meals every week after church.

• 6. Photo RAM cards for laptops. There are various incompatable styles of these, but the idea in all of them is that they fit either in a tiny card-reader or a digital camera and hold from 8 MB on up of either pictures or regular text files. They're great for transferring updated files from tabletop to laptop.

• 7. Taylors of Harrogate Afternoon Darjeeling tea. I don't usually like tea much, but this tea is different.

• 8. My Man Godfrey, 1936, Carole Lombard and William Powell, $3.99. A clever and heart-warming story about a bum hired to be a butler in a crazy family. It has some good economics in it, too.

• 9. Old Dutch Dill pickle potato chips. This Winnipeg company makes perhaps the best potato chips in the world, and this unusual flavor is worth trying if you are in western Canada or Minnesota.

• 10. The Fisher-Price travel Magna Doodle drawing tablet. This drawing tablet is Amelia's best toy. She uses it most heavily, it is portable, it is nonmessy, it is educational, and you can even draw supply and demand diagrams on it.

• 11. Olive Tree's Bible Reader Palmpilot Bible freeware program. It turns out this is the most useful feature of my palmpilot, which is why the program makes it on this list but the Palmpilot does not. 461K for New Testament, about 1300K more for Old Testament, in 10 groups of books.

• 12. Dr. Seuss books. Parents won't get as tired of these as of some others. I had never read the 1972 Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now , given my 1958 nativity, but though it is not quite The Cat in the Hat, or One Fish,Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish , it is still good.