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……

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion…. Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations…. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form….John Stuart Mill, On LIberty