THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

BIRTHDAYS:

1699 Jan Zach, Czech violinist, organist, and composer, baptized in Čelákovice, Bohemia. Prelude and Fugue in C minor, and Preludio in do minore

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

1969 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-Dutch-American women’s rights activist, writer, and politician (Dutch Parliament, 2003-06), born in Mogadishu, Somalia.

MISCELLANEOUS:

THIS IS GETTING TO BE A THING. Blue Origin Launches New Glenn NG2 – LANDED THE BOOSTER

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