THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

BIRTHDAYS:

1689 José Pradas Gallén, composer. Concierto

1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter

1754 William Murdoch, inventor (oscillating cylinder steam engine; also pioneered coal-gas lighting)

1872 Aubrey Beardsley, author and illustrator

1973 Sergey Brin, computer scientist (co-founder of Google)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION CALIFORNIANS. California’s Medicaid Program is a Voter Registration Program…Literally