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Thought for the Day: “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.” ― H. L. Mencken Birthdays: 1852 Edward Austin Abbey 1582 Thomas Simpson: Bonny Sweet Robin 1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no.2 op.18 1868 Edmond Rostand 1908 Abraham Maslow 1926 Anne McCaffrey 1929 Milan Kundera 1942 Samuel R. Delany Jr. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington…

Thought for the Day: “But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another, which is true as far as it goes, but open to misinterpretation; for only productive employment does that. If a man were paid to pick up pebbles on the…

Thought for the Day: “If, in recommending that Americans avoid meat, cheese, milk, cream, butter, eggs, and the rest, it turns out that nutrition experts made a mistake, it will have been a monumental one. Measured just by death and disease, and not including the millions of lives derailed by excess weight and obesity, it’s…

Thought for the Day: “Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the…

Thought for the Day: “Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.” ― Adam Smith Birthdays: 1472 Fra Bartolommeo 1660 Arnold Houbraken 1766 Joseph Weigl: Pria ch’io l’impegno MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth RELATED: Collateral Global

Thought for the Day: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.” ― Henry David Thoreau Birthdays: 1710 Joseph Abaco: Capriccio No. 1, and Capriccio No. 2 1845 Wilhelm Röntgen 1863…

Thought for the Day: “My definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree?…how much of what I earn belongs to you–and why?” ― Walter Williams Birthdays: 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch 1806 Josef Slavik: Capriccio 1859 A. E. Housman 1874 Robert Frost 1973 Larry Page MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The…

Thought for the Day: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” ― Friedrich von Hayek Birthdays: 1881 Béla Bartok: Rhapsody…

March 24, 2023 For reasons unknown my old web site is suddenly no longer visible. Welcome then, to this, my new website. I will try to keep it interesting. Enjoy. Thought for the day: “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” — Robert…