Brad Rourke’s Blog
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Changing The Meaning Of "Community Work"
I do a lot of work with organizations trying to change how they relate to — and work with — communities. As a result, I write a lot of reports about “changing work habits in order to make change in communities” and whatnot. There’s a challenge in writing such things. Often, it is hard to…
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Two Hours Of Facebook
President-elect Obama’s much-vaunted speechwriter, Jon “not that one” Favreau, has been all over the blogosphere for the last week. Seems the 27-year-old got himself photographed at a recent party in an unfortunate position with a life sized cardboard cutout of the next Secretary of State. (That’s Favreau on the left. The guy in the hat…
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Two New Items From Me
Friends– Since many of you who read my occasional commentary are, in fact, friends, I wanted to just let you know of two things that are new in my world. My Band’s New CD Is Complete And Available For Purchase As you probably know, I am in a rock band called The West End. We…
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The Will To Power In US All
The night of my 21st birthday, so many years ago, I was with friends in the Big City near my college. One of us had borrowed a car to get the group into town. Around 1:30 am, as we were about to go home, it conked out. The handful of us were standing around, wondering…
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Eating On One Dollar A Day
My friend Christina told me about the One Dollar Diet Project. No, it is not really a diet program. It is a couple (Christopher Greenslate and Kerri Leonard) who decided to spend one month eating on one dollar a day each. About 15% of the world’s population, or 1 billion people, subsists on this amount.…
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Thieves: Don't Take My Phone!
My wallet got stolen yesterday. I fell victim to a rash of thievery at my gym: at least four other guys got hit. I had locked my locker like I always do; when I returned after my workout and started turning the knob, something felt funny. The knob turned harder than usual. Then the combo…
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Thieves: Don’t Take My Phone!
My wallet got stolen yesterday. I fell victim to a rash of thievery at my gym: at least four other guys got hit. I had locked my locker like I always do; when I returned after my workout and started turning the knob, something felt funny. The knob turned harder than usual. Then the combo…
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Cheaters Prosper
Perhaps you noticed the articles recently announcing the Josephson Institute’s latest installment of their annual survey of youth perceptions on ethics. It’s something I take note of, since I used to work at a think tank on ethics. The Josephson survey is always good for some alarmist fare, and rightly so. Perhaps the most striking…
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Car Execs Came To Town, Riding On A Pony
I grew up in Detroit when times were tough and it wasn’t pretty. But looking at how the heads of the Big Three are responding to the crisis that faces them makes me think that there may be too many auto companies in my hometown. While the new reorganization plans the Big Three unveiled yesterday…
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