THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jarre; nor his reason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous.”

— Ben Jonson

BIRTHDAYS:

1761 Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Lübeck. “Romance af Dragedukken”, and “Husarerne på frierier”

1825 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, American poet, abolitionist, suffragist, temperance activist, and novelist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

FEWER UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. Deregulating Drug Development

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