THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.”

— Edmund Burke

BIRTHDAYS:

1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, Italian statesman, banker, and de facto ruler of the Republic of Florence from 1469 until his death, inheriting power at age twenty from his father Piero upon the latter’s death in 1469.

1628 Christoph Bernhard, German baroque composer. Fürchtet euch nicht.

1697 Johann Pfeiffer, German violinist, composer and concert master at court (Bayreuth), born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Suite in B Major.

1729 Edmund Burke, British statesman, philosopher and author.

1927 Vernon L. Smith, American economist and academic who pioneered experimental economics by demonstrating through laboratory experiments that decentralized market processes can achieve efficient outcomes even among participants lacking full rationality or information.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. What to expect from the planets in 2026 — key dates and sky events

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