THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”

— Thomas Paine

BIRTHDAYS:

1824 Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer. Má Vlast, No. 2. Vltava (River Moldau)

1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], Yiddish author and playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the Dairyman), born in Pereyaslav, Russian Empire

1904 Dr. Seuss, American children’s author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist.

1900 Kurt Weill, German-American composer and collaborator of Bertolt Brecht (Die Dreigroschenoper – The Threepenny Opera). Speak Low (Lady in the Dark), and Threepenny Opera Suite

1926 Murray Rothbard, American economist, historian, and political theorist who advanced the Austrian School of economics through rigorous application of praxeological methods and developed the framework of anarcho-capitalism as a system of voluntary exchange without state intervention.

1931 Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author (The Right Stuff).

1970 Matt Taibbi, American author, journalist, and Rolling Stone editor.

MISCELLANEOUS:

IS THIS WHAT THEY MEAN BY RADIO ASTRONOMY? Real NASA space telescope data creates soundtracks for Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

THIS IS NOT BAD, RIGHT? Iran Cannot Build a Nuclear Bomb Under These Conditions

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: