THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

— Carl Sagan

BIRTHDAYS:

1560 Annibale Carracci, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States.

1587 Samuel Scheidt, German baroque composer, born in Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire. Sinfonia chromatica, and Echo à 4. Voc.
From: Tabulatura Nova II, and O Nachbar Roland, and Vater unser im himmelreich

1656 Georg Reutter, Austrian composer and organist. Ricercar a 3 suietti, and Missa a 4 voci G-Dur – “Kyrie”

1689 Jan Josef Ignác Brentner, Bohemian composer, born in Dobřany, Kingdom of Bohemia. Gloria et honore

1801 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer. “Casta Diva” (Bellini: Norma, Act 1)

MISCELLANEOUS:

COMPETITION. YES! New Space Race to the Moon. SpaceX vs Blue Origin. MUSK vs Bezos Again

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

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration