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 # <li value="5">  '''''Go Down Moses,''''' William Faulkner (1942). Connected stories about blacks, Indians, whites, and the vanishing of the wilderness.
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 # <li value="6"> '''Bluesky,''' the X competitor. It really is better-- but too few people. X will copy its improvements, but Bluesky will survive as a niche for professors.

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 # <li value="6"> '''Bluesky,''' the X competitor. It really is better-- but too few people. X will copy its improvements, but Bluesky will survive as a niche for professors.
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 # <li value="7"> '''Central Indiana family restaurants:''' Martinsville's [https://indysrestaurant.com/ Indy's] American restaurant and  [https://sgtpeppers.net/ Sergeant Pepper's]  for chicken, Lafayette's [https://lasbrazastaqueria.com/ Las Brazas Number Two] tacqueria, and the famous [https://www.triplexxxfamilyrestaurant.com/about/ Triple XXX] diner in West Lafayette.
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 # <li value="11"> '''''Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023),''''' by Steve Sailer (2024). See Charles Murray's ''Claremont Review'' [https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/plain-speaking/ review.] Sailer and Murray are the most perceptive social observers of our time, without a doubt. They're both first-rate writers, and Sailer is funny too.
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 # <li value="12"> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep-OnsDieFQ '''Saturday Night Live on the 3 College Presidents' Testimony before Congress'''] (7 minutes 2023) is both perceptive and hilarious, a rare example of political humor by liberals.
 Also-Rans: A [https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742911698925990153 short video of a map on the Korean War]. TinyURL.com pdf merger and deleter. smallpdf.com. Corning Glass Museum. Testifying in the Statehouse. Pi, much more intereting than I thought. Staying in Chinateown in an AirBnB [https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1796571526180839906 Hung Cao's TV ad] for the Virginia Senate race (3 minutes). [https://new.store.bettermade.com/rainbow-potato-chips-4pk.html Rainbow Chips] and [https://www.mashed.com/142462/popular-items-that-completely-vanished-from-trader-joes/ Trader Joe's Russet] dark potato chips.[https://www.instacart.com/landing?product_id=24656860&retailer_id=1425&region_id=26825445480&utm_medium=sem_shopping&utm_source=instacart_google&utm_campaign=ad_demand_shopping_rp_food_all-non-ca_evergreen&utm_content=accountid-8145171519_campaignid-21109548166_adgroupid-159605469243_device-c&utm_term=targetid-pla-1488101671671_locationid-9016563_adtype-pla_productchannel-online_merchantid-311511022_storecode-_productid-24656860&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwkuqvBhAQEiwA65XxQOcsTCBrV7SwycvvZrkVUQi9-VxKEAm4a2iRPwpEnS2dCxL6vIhathoCHkcQAvD_BwEBrim's Salt and Pepper flavored Pork Rinds.] tennessee. Isaiah verse on bag. 41:10.  '''Shostakovich movie music.''' He wrotes lots of this, and I like it better than his quartets and symphonies. E.g., [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] Op. 45.

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 # <li value="11"> '''''Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023),''''' by Steve Sailer (2024). See Charles Murray's ''Claremont Review'' [https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/plain-speaking/ review.] Sailer and Murray are the most perceptive social observers of our time, without a doubt. They're both first-rate writers, and Sailer is funny too.
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 # <li value="12"> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep-OnsDieFQ '''Saturday Night Live on the 3 College Presidents' Testimony before Congress'''] (7 minutes 2023) is both perceptive and hilarious, a rare example of political humor by liberals.
 Also-Rans: A [https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742911698925990153 short video of a map on the Korean War]. TinyURL.com pdf merger and deleter. smallpdf.com. Corning Glass Museum. Testifying in the Statehouse. Pi, much more intereting than I thought. Staying in Chinateown in an AirBnB [https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1796571526180839906 Hung Cao's TV ad] for the Virginia Senate race (3 minutes). [https://new.store.bettermade.com/rainbow-potato-chips-4pk.html Rainbow Chips] and [https://www.mashed.com/142462/popular-items-that-completely-vanished-from-trader-joes/ Trader Joe's Russet] dark potato chips.[https://www.instacart.com/landing?product_id=24656860&retailer_id=1425&region_id=26825445480&utm_medium=sem_shopping&utm_source=instacart_google&utm_campaign=ad_demand_shopping_rp_food_all-non-ca_evergreen&utm_content=accountid-8145171519_campaignid-21109548166_adgroupid-159605469243_device-c&utm_term=targetid-pla-1488101671671_locationid-9016563_adtype-pla_productchannel-online_merchantid-311511022_storecode-_productid-24656860&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwkuqvBhAQEiwA65XxQOcsTCBrV7SwycvvZrkVUQi9-VxKEAm4a2iRPwpEnS2dCxL6vIhathoCHkcQAvD_BwEBrim's Salt and Pepper flavored Pork Rinds.] tennessee. Isaiah verse on bag. 41:10.  '''Shostakovich movie music.''' He wrotes lots of this, and I like it better than his quartets and symphonies. E.g., [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] Op. 45.

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 # <li value="5">  '''''Go Down Moses,''''' William Faulkner (1942). Connected stories about blacks, Indians, whites, and the vanishing of the wilderness.
-[[File:bluesky.jpg|right|100px|caption]]
+[[File:bluesky.jpg|right|180px|caption]]
 # <li value="6"> '''Bluesky,''' the X competitor. It really is better-- but too few people. X will copy its improvements, but Bluesky will survive as a niche for professors.
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 # <li value="11"> '''''Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023),''''' by Steve Sailer (2024). See Charles Murray's ''Claremont Review'' [https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/plain-speaking/ review.] Sailer and Murray are the most perceptive social observers of our time, without a doubt. They're both first-rate writers, and Sailer is funny too.
-[[File:saturdaynightlive.png|right|100px|caption]]
+[[File:saturdaynightlive.png|right|180px|caption]]
 # <li value="12"> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep-OnsDieFQ '''Saturday Night Live on the 3 College Presidents' Testimony before Congress'''] (7 minutes 2023) is both perceptive and hilarious, a rare example of political humor by liberals.
-Also-Ran: A [https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742911698925990153 short video of a map on the Korean War]. TinyURL.com pdf merger and deleter. smallpdf.com. Corning Glass Museum. Testifying in the Statehouse. Pi, much more intereting than I thought. Staying in Chinateown in an AirBnB [https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1796571526180839906 Hung Cao's TV ad] for the Virginia Senate race (3 minutes). [https://new.store.bettermade.com/rainbow-potato-chips-4pk.html Rainbow Chips] and [https://www.mashed.com/142462/popular-items-that-completely-vanished-from-trader-joes/ Trader Joe's Russet] dark potato chips.[https://www.instacart.com/landing?product_id=24656860&retailer_id=1425&region_id=26825445480&utm_medium=sem_shopping&utm_source=instacart_google&utm_campaign=ad_demand_shopping_rp_food_all-non-ca_evergreen&utm_content=accountid-8145171519_campaignid-21109548166_adgroupid-159605469243_device-c&utm_term=targetid-pla-1488101671671_locationid-9016563_adtype-pla_productchannel-online_merchantid-311511022_storecode-_productid-24656860&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwkuqvBhAQEiwA65XxQOcsTCBrV7SwycvvZrkVUQi9-VxKEAm4a2iRPwpEnS2dCxL6vIhathoCHkcQAvD_BwEBrim's Salt and Pepper flavored Pork Rinds.] tennessee. Isaiah verse on bag. 41:10.  '''Shostakovich movie music.''' He wrotes lots of this, and I like it better than his quartets and symphonies. E.g., [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] Op. 45.
+Also-Rans: A [https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742911698925990153 short video of a map on the Korean War]. TinyURL.com pdf merger and deleter. smallpdf.com. Corning Glass Museum. Testifying in the Statehouse. Pi, much more intereting than I thought. Staying in Chinateown in an AirBnB [https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1796571526180839906 Hung Cao's TV ad] for the Virginia Senate race (3 minutes). [https://new.store.bettermade.com/rainbow-potato-chips-4pk.html Rainbow Chips] and [https://www.mashed.com/142462/popular-items-that-completely-vanished-from-trader-joes/ Trader Joe's Russet] dark potato chips.[https://www.instacart.com/landing?product_id=24656860&retailer_id=1425&region_id=26825445480&utm_medium=sem_shopping&utm_source=instacart_google&utm_campaign=ad_demand_shopping_rp_food_all-non-ca_evergreen&utm_content=accountid-8145171519_campaignid-21109548166_adgroupid-159605469243_device-c&utm_term=targetid-pla-1488101671671_locationid-9016563_adtype-pla_productchannel-online_merchantid-311511022_storecode-_productid-24656860&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwkuqvBhAQEiwA65XxQOcsTCBrV7SwycvvZrkVUQi9-VxKEAm4a2iRPwpEnS2dCxL6vIhathoCHkcQAvD_BwEBrim's Salt and Pepper flavored Pork Rinds.] tennessee. Isaiah verse on bag. 41:10.  '''Shostakovich movie music.''' He wrotes lots of this, and I like it better than his quartets and symphonies. E.g., [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] Op. 45.

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 See also [[Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2024]]  and  [[Best Articles 2021]] and [[Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2022]] and [[Best Things of 2022]] and [[Best Things of 2023]].
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 # <li value="1"> '''Party machinery.''' Get involved. Eric was elected to Republican Precinctman--Perry 19--Monroe County unopposed and to Delegate to the Indiana Republican Convention as one of 7 running where 6 could win, and was part of Micah Beckwith's 891-828 [https://indianacitizen.org/gop-convention-upset-beckwith-pulls-off-shocker-defeating-mike-brauns-pick-in-race-for-lieutenant-governor/  upset victory for the  Lt.-Governor nomination]. Helen is his VP. To learn how to be a ward heeler, read Alfred Steinberg's [https://www.amazon.com/bosses-Alfred-Steinberg/dp/B0006CCCNK ''The Bosses''] (1972), a  Defense against the Dark Arts text.
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 # <li value="2">'''Supreme Court amicus briefs.''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bopp James Bopp] was my lawyer, on very short notice. [https://tinyurl.com/2w9k6sw6 "Brief of Amicus Curiae Eric Rasmusen In Support of Respondents in 22-555 and Petitioners in 22-277, ''NetChoice v. Paxton'',"] United States Supreme Court (2024). The large social media platforms are natural monopolies and common carriers, which should be regulated to forbid discrimination. My side lost, so democracy is still in peril, but it was fun.
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 # <li value="6"> '''Bluesky,''' the X competitor. It really is better-- but too few people. X will copy its improvements, but Bluesky will survive as a niche for professors.
-[[File:triplexxx.png|right|100px|caption]]
+[[File:triplexxx.png|right|210px|caption]]
 # <li value="7"> '''Central Indiana family restaurants:''' Martinsville's [https://indysrestaurant.com/ Indy's] American restaurant and  [https://sgtpeppers.net/ Sergeant Pepper's]  for chicken, Lafayette's [https://lasbrazastaqueria.com/ Las Brazas Number Two] tacqueria, and the famous [https://www.triplexxxfamilyrestaurant.com/about/ Triple XXX] diner in West Lafayette.

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	# <li value="1"> '''Party machinery.''' Get involved. Eric was elected to Republican Precinctman--Perry 19--Monroe County unopposed and to Delegate to the Indiana Republican Convention as one of 7 running where 6 could win, and was part of Micah Beckwith's 891-828 [https://indianacitizen.org/gop-convention-upset-beckwith-pulls-off-shocker-defeating-mike-brauns-pick-in-race-for-lieutenant-governor/ upset victory for the Lt.-Governor nomination]. Helen is his VP. To learn how to be a ward heeler, read Alfred Steinberg's [https://www.amazon.com/bosses-Alfred-Steinberg/dp/B0006CCCNK ''The Bosses''] (1972), a Defense against the Dark Arts text. [[File:Supcourtbrief.jpg\|right\|100px\|caption]]		# <li value="1"> '''Party machinery.''' Get involved. Eric was elected to Republican Precinctman--Perry 19--Monroe County unopposed and to Delegate to the Indiana Republican Convention as one of 7 running where 6 could win, and was part of Micah Beckwith's 891-828 [https://indianacitizen.org/gop-convention-upset-beckwith-pulls-off-shocker-defeating-mike-brauns-pick-in-race-for-lieutenant-governor/ upset victory for the Lt.-Governor nomination]. Helen is his VP. To learn how to be a ward heeler, read Alfred Steinberg's [https://www.amazon.com/bosses-Alfred-Steinberg/dp/B0006CCCNK ''The Bosses''] (1972), a Defense against the Dark Arts text. [[File:Supcourtbrief.jpg\|right\|100px\|caption]]

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-# <li value="1"> '''Party machinery.''' Get involved. Eric was elected to Republican Precinctman--Perry 19--Monroe County unopposed and to Delegate to the Indiana Republican Convention as one of 7 running where 6 could win, and was part of Micah Beckwith's 891-828 [https://indianacitizen.org/gop-convention-upset-beckwith-pulls-off-shocker-defeating-mike-brauns-pick-in-race-for-lieutenant-governor/  upset victory for the  Lt.-Governor nomination]. Helen is his VP. To learn how to be a ward heeler, read Alfred Steinberg's [https://www.amazon.com/bosses-Alfred-Steinberg/dp/B0006CCCNK ''The Bosses''] (1972), a  Defense against the Dark Arts text.
+# <li value="1"> '''Party machinery.''' Get involved. Eric was elected to Republican Precinctman--Perry 19--Monroe County unopposed and to Delegate to the Indiana Republican Convention as one of 7 running where 6 could win, and was part of Micah Beckwith's 891-828 [https://indianacitizen.org/gop-convention-upset-beckwith-pulls-off-shocker-defeating-mike-brauns-pick-in-race-for-lieutenant-governor/  upset victory for the  Lt.-Governor nomination]. Helen is his VP. To learn how to be a ward heeler, read Alfred Steinberg's [https://www.amazon.com/bosses-Alfred-Steinberg/dp/B0006CCCNK ''The Bosses''] (1972), a  Defense against the Dark Arts text.   [[File:Supcourtbrief.jpg|right|100px|caption]]
-# <li value="2">'''Supreme Court amicus briefs.''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bopp James Bopp] was my lawyer, on very short notice. [https://tinyurl.com/2w9k6sw6 "Brief of Amicus Curiae Eric Rasmusen In Support of Respondents in 22-555 and Petitioners in 22-277, ''NetChoice v. Paxton'',"] United States Supreme Court (2024). The large social media platforms are natural monopolies and common carriers, which should be regulated to forbid discrimination. My side lost, so democracy is still in peril, but it was fun. [[File:Supcourtbrief.jpg|right|100px|caption]]
+# <li value="2">'''Supreme Court amicus briefs.''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bopp James Bopp] was my lawyer, on very short notice. [https://tinyurl.com/2w9k6sw6 "Brief of Amicus Curiae Eric Rasmusen In Support of Respondents in 22-555 and Petitioners in 22-277, ''NetChoice v. Paxton'',"] United States Supreme Court (2024). The large social media platforms are natural monopolies and common carriers, which should be regulated to forbid discrimination. My side lost, so democracy is still in peril, but it was fun.
-# <li value="3"> '''More Korean TV:''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_in_the_Palace ''The Jewel in the Palace''] (2003), a 54-episode 16th-century palace drama, the 10th-highest grossing Korean drama of all time,and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father,_I%27ll_Take_Care_of_You ''Father I'll Take Care of You'' (2016), a 50-episode series about married children coming back to live with their parents. ]
+# <li value="3"> '''More Korean TV:''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_in_the_Palace ''The Jewel in the Palace''] (2003), a 54-episode 16th-century palace drama, the 10th-highest grossing Korean drama of all time, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father,_I%27ll_Take_Care_of_You ''Father I'll Take Care of You'' (2016), a 50-episode series about married children coming back to live with their parents. ]
-# <li value="4"> '''''Grand Maison Tokyo''''' (11 episode [[Japanese series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Maison_Tokyo|Japanese series]], 2019). A Japanese chef disgraced after a scandal in Paris joins with a Japanese owner to try for three Michelin stars in Tokyo. Corny, but good, with lots of French food video.
+# <li value="4"> '''''Grand Maison Tokyo''''' (11 episode [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Maison_Tokyo Japanese series], 2019). A Japanese chef disgraced after a scandal in Paris joins with a Japanese owner to try for three Michelin stars in Tokyo. Corny, but good, with lots of French food video.
 # <li value="5">  '''''Go Down Moses,''''' William Faulkner (1942). Connected stories about blacks, Indians, whites, and the vanishing of the wilderness.