THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.”

— Robert Heinlein

BIRTHDAYS:

1634 Jan-Erasmus Quellinus [Quellien], Flemish painter (court painter to Emperor Leopold I)

1709 Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian composer, singer and conductor, born in Holleschau, Moravia. Sinfonia in C major

1716 Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor

1886 Rex Stout, American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels).

1941 Federico Faggin, Italian physicist and inventor (microprocessor).

MISCELLANEOUS:

PROBLEM SOLVED. Optimus Will be the Von Neumann Probe

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

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration