”Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.”

— Richard Mitchell, Less Than Words Can Say

BIRTHDAYS:

1670 Christian Ludwig Boxberg, German composer, born in Sondershausen, Thuringia, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Machet die Tore weit

1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Toccata for Trumpet and Organ, and Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina

1743 Edmund Cartwright, English inventor (power loom).

1874 Willem Elisa Roelofs jr., Dutch painter and cartoonist.

1945 Larry Tesler, American computer scientist (invented copy, cut, paste).

MISCELLANEOUS:

ALIENS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED… ON MARS. This Haunting Image Is the First Orbital View of Curiosity Moving Across Mars

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)