THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville

BIRTHDAYS:

1632 Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer. Chiacona per la lettera B

1745 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.

1857 Max Klinger, German graphic artist, painter and sculptor

1860 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter, etcher and sculptor

1883 Níkos Kazantzákis, Greek writer and philosopher (Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ)

MISCELLANY:

MEANWHILE, IN BRITAIN. They’re coming for your cats and dogs

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