A life in words

  • Waiting in Line

    Normally time spent waiting in lines is utterly wasted. Just scratch it off of the list of productive moments in your life; you might as well not have lived that line-time. Just ask East Germany. Saturday morning I went with some members of my ward to the Mount Timpanogos temple. Because the Provo temple is…

  • T is for Tokyo

    That’s good enough for Cookie Monster. Problem is, the skyline at the top of my website is actually that of Kuala Lampur. But that has two letters, which is far beyond Sesame Street.

  • Enter Monstropolitan

    I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time—merge my public ¡Oye, vato! blog with my family-only Ziggity Zam blog. It saves me the hassle of having to post things in two places. It helps me be able to focus on just one blog. It gives me a new, permanent home at joshhansen.net. And……

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