“There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man’s needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.”

― Albert Jay Nock

Birthdays:

1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer. Dixit Dominus

1805 Robert FitzRoy, English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist.

1867 A. E. Douglass, Archaeologist and Astronomer.

1889 Jean Cocteau, poet, writer, filmmaker and painter.

1958 William “Bill” Watterson, American cartoonist known for being author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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