Thought for the day:

"Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one."

— Garry Kasparov

 

Birthdays:

1599 Anthony Van Dyck

1700 Giuseppe Sellitto: Allegro non tanto, dal Concerto per Traversiere in sol magg

1728 Anton Raphael Mengs

 

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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