THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

― H.L. Mencken

BIRTHDAYS:

1732 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Sinfonia d minor (8:56), and Sonata in Do maggiore (15:23), and Keyboard Sonata No.4, E-flat major (8:20)

1882 Rockwell Kent, American artist, painter and illustrator.

1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.

1896 Charles Momsen, American inventor (submarine rescue device).

1947 Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel laureate, lawyer, writer, teacher and a former judge and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.

1953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.

1983 Edward Snowden, American NSA whistleblower.

MISCELLANY:

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A FEW THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN BEGINS:

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. A Special Message To Patients: STOP Your Ideological BS (5:59)

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.