THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.”

― Albert Jay Nock

BIRTHDAYS:

1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist, architect and designer of tapestries and stained glass (court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V)

1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, French painter and inventor (modern pencil)

1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

1877 Dame Laura Knight, English impressionist artist.

1901 Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz.

MISCELLANY:

MEANWHILE, CHEVRON IS LEAVING CALIFORNIA. California’s Politicians Appear Determined to Bring ‘Atlas Shrugged’ to Life

RECOMMENDED READING BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN IS DECLARED:

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.