THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The most serious problem of the welfare state is not its cost, but its effect on the character of the people. It tends to destroy the sense of individual responsibility and the willingness of individuals to help one another.”

— Milton Friedman

BIRTHDAYS:

1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest, baptized in Marino, Papal States. “Dixit Dominus”

1817 George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe).

1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer. Cavalleria Leggera, Ouverture

MISCELLANEOUS:

PROGRESS. Tesla Unsupervised Robotaxi with Paying Passengers in Dallas and Houston