THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

BIRTHDAYS:

1692 Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer. Sonata 3 (g minor)

1739 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer. Double bass & Orchestra in D major

1815 George Boole, English autodidact, mathematician, philosopher and logician who served as the first professor of mathematics at Queen’s College, Cork in Ireland.

1929 Amar Bose, American electrical engineer, academic (M.I.T.), sound engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur (Bose Corporation).

MISCELLANEOUS:

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW. Masih Alinejad

IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO ACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration