THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is as good as a man,” without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (…) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

BIRTHDAYS:

1781 Giovanni Battista Polledro, Italian composer, born in Piovà Massaia, Kingdom of Sardinia. Capriccio No. 4

1819 Gustave Courbet, French realist painter.

1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine.

1925 Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media.

MISCELLANEOUS:

FINALLY. Elon Announces Tentative June 22 as Austin Robotaxi Day

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)