A life in words

  • The World According To Me

    Okay, I just took the “Are you a neoconservative?” quiz at the Christian Science Monitor website and it tells me that I’m a liberal. Okay, so I disagree with President Bush on a lot of things, but I don’t think that’s quite right. I want to explain my position, just to help myself be more…

  • Radio Free Monticello

    Join the fight to free the tenants! http://www.radiofreemonticello.info [The link is dead. Long live the link! –josh 8 aug 2008]

  • NetLing Release and Website

    From the Release Announcement: The bits are on the wire and NetLing is live! See the wiki at http://www.netling.org/ [The website is no longer available –josh 8 aug 2008] NetLing is a tool to aid in historical analysis and live monitoring of lexical variation using Internet-available bodies of text as corpora (i.e. Web, Usenet, mailing…

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