THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism–and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

BIRTHDAYS:

1660 Daniel Defoe, English writer, merchant and spy.

1673 Hercule Brehy, Flemish composer and organist, born in Brussels, Spanish Netherlands. Usqueque Domine

1819 Clara Schumann, German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7: II. Romanze

1857 Milton S. Hershey, American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist.

1938 Judith Martin, American author, journalist and columnist (Miss Manners).

MISCELLANEOUS:

FRANTICALLY WRAPPING ALL OF MY ELECTRONICS IN ALUMINUM FOIL. Aurora alert! Butterfly-shaped ‘hole’ in sun’s atmosphere could spark geomagnetic storm Sept. 13-14

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