Richard Mitchell 1929 – 2002

”Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

BIRTHDAYS:

161 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher.

1785 John James Audubon, French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist.

1796 Auguste Mathieu Panseron, French composer. Sainte Cécile, and Tyrol qui m’a vu naître

1863 Charles Haslewood Shannon, English lithographer and painter.

1865 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic.

1900 Charles F. Richter, American physicist and seismologist (developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquake magnitude).

1912 A. E. van Vogt, Canadian sci-fi author.

1929 Richard Mitchell, American professor and author (The Underground Grammarian).

1933 Carol Burnett, American comedian, actress, singer, and writer. Burnett played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen.

MISCELLANEOUS:

VON MISES IS STILL RIGHT. Capitalists Against Capitalism

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)

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