THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“It’s not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind the equivalent of putting an adjective to a noun, and saw, not only a relationship, but this special relationship between two things of different kinds….In sum, all the seemingly complicated kinds of modification in English are just ways of thinking and seeing how things go with each other or reflect each other. Modifiers in our language are not aids to understanding relationships; they are the ways to understand relationships. A mistake in this matter either comes from or causes a clouded mind. Usually it’s both.”

— Richard Mitchell, Less Than Words Can Say

BIRTHDAYS:

1696 Johann Paul Kunzen, German organist and composer, born in Leisnig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Ouverture No.2 in D-major

1741 Jean-Paul-Égide Martini [Johann Paul Aegidius Martin], French composer, born in Freystadt, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Plaisir d’amour

1821 Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist.

1834 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer, born in Paderno, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire. Dance of the Hours (from La Gioconda)

1870 Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy.

1918 Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist and librettist.

1985 Mohammed bin Salman, heir apparent to the Saudi Arabian throne.

MISCELLANEOUS:

AT LEAST IT’S NOT HAPPENING IN THE UNITED STATES.
UPDATE: The Mayor of Aurora, CO Speaks on Apartment Building Takeovers by Armed Gangs

LEGISLATIVE INFLATION? How Many Laws Did You Break Today?

HERE’S SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

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.