THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“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

BIRTHDAYS:

1836 Bret Harte, American author (Outcasts of Poker Flat).

1880 Robert E. Stolz, Austrian composer and conductor. Du Sollst der Kaiser meiner seele sein, and Verliebte muß man gar nicht erst in Stimmung bringen

1938 Frederick Forsyth, British author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

A SURPRISE ADMISSION. Composer John Williams says he ‘never liked film music very much’

IN THE FUTURE BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE) THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT ALSO WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration