THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

— H. L. Mencken

BIRTHDAYS:

1559 Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter and architect.

1655 Sebastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist. Stabat Mater, and Beati immaculati, and Excerpts from the program “In the library of Sébastien de Brossard” by the Saint Georges Consort

1880 H. L. Mencken, American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.

1858 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter and sculptor.

1913 Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete who made history at the 1936 Olympic Games by becoming the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes in track and field history.

MISCELLANEOUS:

A Tribute to Charlie Kirk (1993–2025)

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