If Woody were writing the song “Pretty Boy Floyd” today, he might have substituted “Big fat sharpie” for “fountain pen”.
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Truth Teller #19 Lord Bertrand Russell
Mathematician and Philosopher Bertrand Russell was jailed for his opposition to the First World War. Although willing to be jailed for what he believed, he was not dogmatic. He famously remarked “I would never die for my beliefs, I might be wrong.”
Truth Teller #18, Bruce Spring
Springsteen delivered these These remarks in Manchester, England at the beginning of his 2025 European Tour
Truth Teller #17 G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton was an English philosopher, apologist for Christianity, author of the Father Brown mystery novels and literary and art critic. He showed an early talent for visual art, but did not finish art school. That was a good move, as he was to develop into a writer of such stature he was cited as an influence by Argentinian great Jorge Luis Borges. As author of as many as 80 books, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1935.
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