A life in words

  • Quote: Old Truths

    Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends—honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism—these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What…

  • Katinka Kristina Kristiansen, et alii

    So, on my account at werelate.org I’ve uploaded my family history information, namely the GEDCOM data that my dad gave me a few years ago. WeRelate is a cool site. It’s basically Wikipedia for genealogy. In fact, it’s built on the same underlying MediaWiki software that Wikipedia uses. The idea of WeRelate, as with any…

  • Come to the Shakespeare Reading!

    I’m hereby invoking the massive online presence that is joshhansen.net to spread the word about tomorrow’s MLK Day Shakespeare Reading for our Curiously Poetic Altoids poetry club. Here’s the announcement: Hi Altoid friends! Tomorrow is the blessed holiday of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, and in honor of its awesomeness we are going to have…

The principal difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this Representative Assembly. It should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them. That it may be the interest of this Assembly to do strict justice at all times, it should be an equal representation, or in other words equal interest among the people should have equal interest in it. Great care should be taken to effect this, and to prevent unfair, partial, and corrupt elections.John Adams, Thoughts on Government, April 1776