August 14, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.”

― Rose Wilder Lane

BIRTHDAYS:

1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter.

1777 Hans Christian Ørsted, discovered electromagnetism while observing a compass needle in 1820.

1861 Bion J. Arnold, American electrical engineer and inventor.

1868 Leone Sinigaglia, Italian composer. “La Tregua”, and Intermezzo

1950 Gary Larson, American cartoonist who created The Far Side.

MISCELLANY:

SO, FOR NOW WE’LL USE PAPER BALLOTS. WE ARE GOING TO USE ONLY PAPER BALLOTS. RIGHT? HELLO?
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MILAN KUNDERA’S NOVELS WEREN’T HOW-TO MAUALS.
Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting

SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

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