THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.”

— Rose Wilder Lane

BIRTHDAYS:

1666 Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer. Dixit Dominus (excerpt)

1869 Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs).

1886 Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and libertarian political theorist, best known as the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder and for her substantial editorial collaboration on the Little House series.

1890 Fritz Lang, Austrian-born filmmaker whose career spanned German expressionism and Hollywood film noir, directing landmark films that explored themes of fate, technology, and criminality (Metropolis).

1901 Walt Disney, American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur who founded The Walt Disney Company and pioneered advancements in animated filmmaking.

1901 Werner Heisenberg, German theoretical physicist renowned for formulating matrix mechanics, the first mathematically consistent version of quantum mechanics, in 1925.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ESPECIALLY NICE FOR THE FAMILY. The 1st Global Space Awards honors late Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell on Dec. 5

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. Night sky tonight and the weekend: See Jupiter meet the moon in Gemini

REMINDER:

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