Tony's Garden

Thought for the Day: “What’s worrisome about the state of discourse in the free West is that comedians won’t go to university campuses. It’s the same thing.  You don’t get to be funny.  So, if you can’t be funny then you’re not free.  You know, the jester and the king’s courts is the only person…

Thought for the Day: “If anything, silencing people can make them even more passionate about their “forbidden” opinions. When you do that, it just solidifies your position as the unreasonable, domineering enemy, and theirs as the victim and martyr. It might discourage them from ever wanting to engage with anyone with your opinion ever again.…

Thought for the Day: “Freedom of speech doesn’t apply only if you like the message; it applies to everyone. And if it is gone, so is a free society.” ― Pamela Geller Birthdays: 1759 Gervais-François Couperin, composer. Andante (from Sonata Op.1 nº1) 1813 Richard Wagner, German composer. Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. 1859 Arthur Conan…

Thought for the Day: “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” ― Alexander Pope Birthdays: 1471 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker 1633 Joseph de La Barre, French composer 1671…

Thought for the Day: “Far too many people believe that they are owed some kind of ‘safe space’ from opposing ideas, and the fact is, that just isn’t true – and we shouldn’t allow people to say that it is true without correcting them.” ― Kat Timpf Birthdays: 1554 Paolo Bellasio, composer. Quel tristarel d’amore…

Thought for the Day: “Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.” ― Gad Saad Birthdays: 1616 Johann Jakob Froberger, composer. Toccata, FbWV 102 1881 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey. 1925 Malcolm X, human rights activist. 1942 Gary…

Thought for the Day: “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” ― Omar Khayyam Birthdays: 1048 Omar Khayyám, mathematician, astronomer, poet, and philosopher 1830 Károly Goldmark, composer. Violin Concerto, Op. 28 (32:14) 1872 Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher, logician, and…

Thought for the Day: “I had the misfortune or the fortune to learn how to read fluently starting about the age of three, so I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit first grade, and I already knew the teachers were lying to me” ― Alan Kay Birthdays: 1749 Edward Jenner, physician…

Thought for the Day: “The man whose public spirit is prompted altogether by humanity and benevolence, will respect the established powers and privileges even of individuals, and still more those of the great orders and societies, into which the state is divided. Though he should consider some of them as in some measure abusive, he…

Thought for the Day: “Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” ― Sun Tzu Birthdays: 1565 Henrick de Keyser, sculptor 1567 Claudio Monteverdi: Puer Natus (Chiome d’oro), and L`Orfeo (1:35) 1848 Viktor Vasnetsov, painter 1856 L. Frank Baum, author 1891 Mikhail Bulgakov, playwright and novelist MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS,…