Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Herbert Fingarette

Born: January 20, 1921
Died: November 2, 2018 (aged 97)
Bio: Herbert Fingarette was an American philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles under the direction of Donald Piatt.
Known for:
- Confucius--the secular as sacred (1972)
- Heavy Drinking (1988)
- Self-deception (1969)
- The meaning of criminal insanity (1972)
- Death: Philosophical Soundings (1996)