If you have 15 minutes free, listen to this. (nothing political, despite the mention of names in the first minute, I promise)

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate . . . We must think anew, we must act anew.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Dec 1862
(BTW – I highly recommend that you subscribe to TED on your google reader. I don’t always agree with every speaker, but the ideas are compelling)
Worth thinking about