THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

— Colin Powell

BIRTHDAYS:

1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian Mannerist painter (Judith), born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany

1688 Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer, born in Prato, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Adagio für Oboe, Violoncello, Orgel und Streicher

1725 John Wilkes, English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier.

1884 Floyd Smith, American aviator and inventor of the modern parachute.

1933 Jeanine Deckers, Belgian singer-songwriter, and Dominican nun known as ‘The Singing Nun’ (“Dominique”). “Alleluia”

MISCELLANEOUS:

DEFUND IMMEDIATELY, IF NOT SOONER. Black Nationalist Gets $20 Million to Promote ‘Segregation’ in Public Schools

DOES THIS SPACESUIT MAKE ME LOOK FAT? Axiom Space, Prada Unveil Spacesuit Design for Moon Return

THANK YOU, MOM. On my birthday a few days ago, I was thinking about my mom. She not only gave birth to me, but introduced me to Flamenco when I was a child. I am eternally grateful to the Flamenco artists in Ciudad Juárez who watched over her. It was also because of her that I heard Greek music, and Beethoven (23:41) for the first time.

SOME LIGHT READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

RECENTLY PUBLISHED (2006). Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

WHAT IF ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL?: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

“The Nuremberg Military Tribunal’s decision in the case of the United States v Karl Brandt et al. includes what is now called the Nuremberg Code, a ten point statement delimiting permissible medical experimentation on human subjects.”