April 2021 Archives
Jordan Peterson returns » MercatorNet
"Helping people bridge the gap between what they profoundly intuit but cannot articulate seems to be a reasonable and valuable function for a public intellectual." -- Jordan B. Peterson. (This was the genius of Rush Limbaugh and the heart of his success.)
BBC Songs of Praise, The UK's Favourite Hymn | BBC One - 12 July 2020 - YouTube
Performances of the top 10 favourite hymns of the British public, including some modern tunes (Getty & Townend's "In Christ Alone" was #3), classic hymns ("Amazing Grace," "Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer," "Abide with Me," "How Great Thou Art," "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind"), and hymns with patriotic connections ("I Vow to Thee, My Country," and the #1 pick, "Jerusalem.")
"With the midshipmen competing against each other, the chance of the Naval Academy being victorious in the croquet match is 100%, bucking the trend of the last five years. The Annapolis Cup has gone to the Johnnies in each of those years.
"Overall, since the match-up began in 1983, the midshipmen have won seven times compared to the Johnnies' 30 wins."
The Invisible Asylum | City Journal
Christopher Rufo writes: "In the absence of the old asylums, Olympia's mentally ill are now crowded into a city-sanctioned tent encampment, then shuffled through the institutions of the modern social-scientific state: the jail cell, the short-term psychiatric bed, the case-management appointment, the feeding line, and the needle dispensary. In the name of compassion, we have built a system that may be even crueler than what came before."
