The educated class suffers from a lack of humility — an odd pose since its failures offer so much to be humble about.
— Jon Gabriel
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Today is Wednesday, March 20th, the 80th day of 2024. There are 286 days left in the year. It is Alien Abduction Day, Won’t You Be My Neighbor Day, Bibliomania Day, National Ravioli Day, International Day of Happiness, International Francophonie Day, World Frog Day, and World Sparrow Day.
On This Day
In 1602, the Dutch East India Company was established.
In 1760, a fire in Boston destroyed 349 buildings and left over a thousand people homeless.
In 1815, after escaping from Elba, Napoleon entered Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.
In 1854, the Republican Party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
In 1915, Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity.
In 1922, the USS Langley was commissioned as the first U.S. aircraft carrier.
In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. They spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam campaigning for an international “Bed-In” for peace.
In 1987, the Food and Drug Administration approved the anti-AIDS drug AZT.
In 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.
In 2003, the United States and three other countries (the U.K., Australia and Poland) invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Today’s Birthdays
Politician Willie Brown is 90. Basketball Hall of Famer Pat Riley is 79. Actor John de Lancie is 76. Former actress Theresa Russell is 67. Actress Holly Hunter is 66. Former model Kathy Ireland is 61. Actor David Thewlis is 61. Actor and podcaster Michael Rapaport is 54.
The Links
Why Would Corporate Media Favor Censorship? (Jeffrey A. Tucker)
“Amazing, isn’t it? The NYT, which sued the government to release the Pentagon Papers, now pushes for government power to restrict speech!”
Now That Puberty Blockers Have Been Banned, it’s Time to Ban Covid Vaccines for Children Too (The Daily Sceptic)
“Healthy children are at extremely low risk of serious illness from Covid, so the risks posed by the vaccines outweigh any possible benefit for a child.”
The perils of being Trump’s vice president (Merrill Matthews)
“Since 1900 only one vice president has won the presidency when the sitting president left office: George H.W. Bush (R) in 1988.”
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