A life in words

  • En españa—7 de mayo 2007

    Hola, estoy en España y les quiero escribir sobre mis experiencias. So we got to Salamanca on Sunday night and finally met our host families, but up until then Sunday was packed with visits to the Museo del Prado and the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid, then to San Lorenzo del Escorial, an old royal…

  • En españa—Parte 1

    I’m responding to an email from David: On 5/4/07, David Hansen wrote: Hey Josh! How was the flight? How are you enjoying your first day outside of US/Canada? It’s pretty mind blowing being somewhere for your first time that English isn’t the native language. It’s cool to see another language all over the street signs…

  • Read This

    A summary of surveys on Muslim attitudes towards sharia, a “global Caliphate,” democracy, and the West: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0425/p01s04-wome.html

There is nothing I dread so much, as a division of the Republic into two great Parties, each arranged under its leader and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This in my humble apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson, 2 Oct 1780