TED Tuesday: African Political Values

In this TED Talk we discover how community solutions focused on the majority peasant economy trumps centralized government and aid that benefits mostly urban elite. We discover that “back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not...

Why We Made Martin-Zimmerman About Race

It is ironic that as final statements are being made on the Martin-Zimmerman case, my daughter is preparing to lead a literature group in the discussion of “To Kill a Mockingbird”. This thought hit me in my waking moments, with a local talk-show host...

Looking Back and Forward After the 4th

I left considerReconsider’s calendar square for Independence Day blank for a reason. I simply don’t know what to say. My wife say’s I’m as patriotic as any [[Hank Hill]], and bear the Colors regularly at parades and other functions. But I have...

Obamacare: The Hard Sell Continues?

I don’t watch a lot of television, but several times now I’ve seen a ([[DNC]]-funded) commercial promoting [[Obamacare]], more formally euphemized as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). And now I’m reading that the White House is recruiting celebrities...

Subjectivity in the cosmic lost and found

What do we seek when we look for self-dissolution in the arms of another, when we don’t know where we end and our lover begins? There are well-documented affinities between Christian and other mysticisms on the one hand and the desire to both lose and realise oneself...