2. Two Chinese TV series: The Story of Yanxi Palace (emperor Qianlong's harem, 1700's) and The Story of Hao Lan (the Warring States, 200 BC. We've seen two series based on the Qianlong harem now, both good.

3. The DBPOWER 800A 18,000mAh Portable Car Jump Starter. This is a big capacitor that will instantly start your car when the battery is dead. Much quicker than jumpstarting.

4. Pokeweed, a common large weed with bright blue berries. When older, with fibrous stems, it is poisonous, but the young shoots and leaves, twice boiled to get rid of then noxious element, are delicious.

5. Blue Bloods (2010 onwards) A TV series about a police chief father and his two policeman sons and lawyer daughter. The whole family liked it. We've only seen the first couple of seasons, though.

6. Picaridin, a newer kind of insect repellant that is said to be about as good as deet, but doesn't smell bad.

7. C.P. Snow's The Light and the Dark (1947) is a book about male friendship and depression that gives insight into human character while failing to touch either topic very well. Its strength is in describing the relationship between civility and enmity.

8. Hamilton (2015, 2020 as a movie). We're not unusual in liking this musical/movie, but it really lives up to its celebrity-- and teaches history too.

9. Law and Liberty, the Liberty Fund magazine at https://lawliberty.org/. Good intellectual articles on government and culture.

10. The annual article list, to try to make the ephemeral into the permanent. A list of a dozen good articles discovered this year, with web links. You need to go to http://rasmusen.org/special/christmas/2020-articles.htm.