Tag: reading
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June 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens BIRTHDAYS: 1907 Marjan Kozina, Slovene composer. Bela Krajina. MISCELLANEOUS: INTERESTING. Nursing home staffing declined in states that protected facilities from COVID-19 malpractice lawsuits, study finds
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June 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Johannes Schenck, Dutch composer. Chacone Suite X 1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist (often called the father of modern geology). 1738 Johann Christoph Oley, German composer. “Herr Gott, Dich alle loben wir.” 1773…
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June 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I was not born to amuse the Tsars.” — Alexander Pushkin BIRTHDAYS: 1448 Domenico Ghirlandaio [Bigordi], Italian Renaissance painter and mentor of Michelangelo. 1830 Olivier Métra, French composer of ballets, light opera, and popular waltzes (Esperance!), and conductor. Quadrille des lanciers (5ème mouvement), and La Sérénade, and Aragonaise-Valse 1903 Robert Morris…
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June 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.” — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Georg Muffat, Baroque composer. Violin Sonata 1755 Frederigo Fiorillo, Italian violist, mandolinist, and composer. Etude No. 32 1769 Józef Elsner, Polish composer and teacher of Chopin. Ouverture…
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May 31, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the…
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May 30, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Back in my old neighborhood, there was a special contempt for the kind of guy who was always trying to get two other guys to fight each other. Today, it is considered a great contribution to society to incite consumers against producers, tenants against landlords, women against men, and the races…
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May 29, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1741 Johann Gottfried Krebs, German composer. Fuga in g, and Chorale Prelude Ach Gott, and Prelude and Fugue in C Major, and Trio Es-dur 1781 John Walker, English inventor and chemist (friction match). 1860 Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist, conductor,…
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May 28, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called Envy.” — Cosimo de’ Medici BIRTHDAYS: 1779 Thomas Moore, Irish poet and musician. 1830: Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian child piano prodigy and composer. Fantasie dramatique, and Konzertstück 1853 Carl…
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May 26, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.” — Virginia Postrel BIRTHDAYS: 1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer,…
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May 27, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Comedy brings religious persecutors, dictators, and tyrants to their knees faster than any other weapon.” — Mel Brooks BIRTHDAYS: 1265 Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet, philosopher, and political figure renowned for his epic poem the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), an allegorical narrative of the soul’s journey through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso,…
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