“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1581 Domenichino [Domenico Zampieri], Italian Baroque painter.

1751 David Moritz Michael, Moravian conductor and composer, (Die Wasserfahrt -The Water Journey), born in Kühnhausen, Prussia. Partita No. 6 in F Major for Two Clarinets, Two Horns, and Two Bassoons

1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.

1775 Guiseppi Baini, Italian priest, conductor, and sacred music composer. Panis Angelicus

1807 Miguel Hilarion Eslava, Spanish composer and priest. Ofertorio sobre Pange Lingua, and Salve Regina

1823 Emilio Arrieta, Spanish opera and zarzuela composer. Horn solo from “La Cacería Real”, and Preludio de la Ópera ‘Marina’, and Salve Regina

1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman.

1847 Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright, poet, and librettist (Puccini’s “La bohème”, “Tosca”, and “Madama Butterfly”).

1914 Martin Gardner, American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

1929 Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi author (The Left Hand of Darkness)

MISCELLANEOUS:

FAILED STATE. Cuba grid collapses again as hurricane looms

HARSH BUT FAIR. “If they’re not defeated, they’re going to keep doing it.”

RELATED. “It’s pretty wild that a tiny tax on tea started the revolution…”

SPEAKING OF ELON. Some Columbus Day Thoughts About Elon Musk

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.”