I hate to keep harping on the problems of the healthcare industry, but there are so many.

The other day our Medicaid transportation service didn't show up to take one of our assisted living residents to a doctor appointment.

So I called them to find out why. Here's how the…

— A Paradise for Parents (@HalCranmer) August 11, 2025

Ali Akbar Court? In Josephine, Texas? Where are the Scotch-Irish? Where are the Minute Men?

Dear American, are you tolerant enough?  Are you too tolerant?  Be more tolerant.  Visit your local Museum of Tolerance.  When will you start organizing and then defend your nation, your history, and honor your civilization that brought you?  Reverse policies, and send these demons back to Hell.   

BREAKING 🚨 VICTORY IN TEXAS

💥 NOW IT’S YOUR TURN - TAKE ACTION AMERICA!

Josephine, Texas just made history - becoming the first city in America to ban ideological street names and protect its identity from foreign political and religious agendas.

In a landmark 3–2 vote,… pic.twitter.com/IZcIA4UZG7

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) August 7, 2025

DAN WUORI: Your baby knows your voice, even before they enter the world.

Surrogacy takes babies away from the only person they've ever known. https://t.co/kznUAbfjSX

— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) August 10, 2025

Your baby knows your voice, even before they enter the world. As the senses activate between 24-26 weeks of gestation, the tone of our own mothers’ voice is one of the very first things we experience as humans (second only to her heartbeat, most likely). And a whole host of research (which you’ll be able to learn about in my next book, Wonderment) documents their recognition of - and preference for - mom’s voice while still in utero. But my favorite study on this topic measured this preference in the days immediately following birth. Using a specially rigged electronic pacifier, researchers established a baseline rate of sucking for each participating infant… then they inserted a new variable. When the newborns began sucking faster than their baseline, a recording of their own mother’s voice (reading a story) was activated. If they began to suck more slowly, a stranger’s voice would read the same passages. 80% of the children in the study successfully modified their behavior to hear their own mother’s voice. The next day these kids were brought back to try again, only this time the situation was reversed. This time to hear their mother they had to suck more slowly. And after some experimentation, 100% successfully modified their behaviors to privilege the sweetest sound they knew: their own mom’s voice. I loved this video from the Leslie Rodriguez on IG that shows baby’s response at 3 weeks. Rest assured she knew and loved your voice even before you met!

Spem In Alium, or "Hope in any other," by Thomas Tallis

Spem In Alium, composed by Thomas Tallis, sung by the British ensemble, Tallis Scholars.  Here is a full track of Tallis' songs. 

Wikipedia explains that 

Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. It is considered by some critics to be the greatest piece of English early music. H. B. Collins described it in 1929 as Tallis's "crowning achievement", along with his Lamentations.

OWEN BENJAMIN: These harmonies are absolutely incredible. The more voices the more it elevates because it’s more voices choosing harmony. The collective sound fits perfectly together as one body but each voice has the ability of choice.

These harmonies are absolutely incredible. I think it’s why it creates the feeling of heaven. Heaven in a sense we can understand, is perfect vibrational harmony. But not just static, it’s choosing to be in a state of perfect harmony. The more voices the more it elevates because… pic.twitter.com/vqv6lOfuzB

— Owen Benjamin 🐻 (@OwenBenjamin) August 10, 2025

These harmonies are absolutely incredible. I think it’s why it creates the feeling of heaven. Heaven in a sense we can understand, is perfect vibrational harmony. But not just static, it’s choosing to be in a state of perfect harmony. The more voices the more it elevates because it’s more voices choosing harmony. The collective sound fits perfectly together as one body but each voice has the ability of choice. It’s so epic. --Owen Benjamin

Today’s lesson is going to be on the roots of western music from the early Middle Ages. http://Courses.owenbenjamin.com.

Rachmaninov Vespers, 5, "Now Lettest Thou Depart."

Rachmaninov Vespers 11, "My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord."