-- David Plotz, host of Slate's Political Gabfest podcast, on the show's 16 July 2026 episode "The 'I'm His Lawyer' Edition"
TRVTH
Daily observations of TRVTH in the real world.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
A Very Bad Dynamic
Monday, July 20, 2026
That Man Is Lost
For I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
-- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic, Bacchides, Act III, scene 3, line 80
Friday, July 17, 2026
Never Yet
-- Robert Anson Heinlein (1907 - 1988), popular and influential author of science fiction, Revolt in 2100 (1953), postscript
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Not Your Own
-- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924), Bohemian-Jewish novelist, The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918), Aphorism #29
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Back The World
-- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924), Bohemian-Jewish novelist, The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918), Aphorism #52
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Not Quite By Chance
-- Jonas Salk (1914 - 1995), medical researcher and author, inventor of the Salk vaccine against Polio, and founder of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, as quoted in Breakthrough : The Saga of Jonas Salk (1966) by Richard Carter
Monday, July 13, 2026
RIP Sam Neill
It’s at a time like now that the importance of other people is thrown into even sharper relief. You realise who your friends are. You know where the love is.
-- Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, KNZM, OBE (14 September 1947 - 13 July 2026), Northern Irish-born New Zealand actor, Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir (2022)

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