THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

― Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

65 BC Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).

1724 Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, French organist, harpsichordist, and composer. La Boullogne, and La Cannonade, and La Monmartel ou la Brunoys

1765 Eli Whitney, Invented the cotton gin machine, used to mechanically pull cotton fibers from the seed.

1815 Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist.

1861 Aristide Maillol, French painter and sculptor.

1926 Joachim Fest, German historian, journalist, critic and editor who was best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including a biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and German resistance to Nazism.

1947 Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong businessman and champion of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.

MISCELLANY:

I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN BIG NEWS.
‘A giant fusion reactor in the sky’: Elon Musk told Joe Rogan that you can power all of the US with 100 x 100 miles of solar — and it’s ‘not hard.’

SHHH. MOVE ALONG… NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
Gaza woman tells Al-Jazeera Hamas stealing all the aid

FARLEY’S: WHERE SOME OF YOU BELONG HERE. Jewish woman kicked out of cafe after complaining about antisemitic graffiti scrawled all over bathroom, getting berated by workers

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

Yes, the following is on the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP). As near as I can tell, the Canadian website was taken down.

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code