A couple of friends of mine started this new music online community. It's a neat idea. Check them out here. If you do a band search for Bob Dylan or Ryan Adams you can find me. Interesting idea... Still waiting for my free tee shirt.
I'm reading a fascinating book that has some of the same themes that run through Bob Lupton's recent writing. It's called 'White Man's Burden" by William Easterly. (I get the feeling some of you have read this already.) You can find it here. The title of the book is somewhat unfortunate, it's meant to be sarcastic. There are some amazing points here, stuff NCUD and others at CCDA have been talking about for years. I encourage you to check it out - here's a couple of great excepts from the first chapter: "But I and many other like-minded people keep trying, not to abandon aid to the poor, but to make sure it reaches them. Rich countries have to address the second tragedy if they are going to make any progress on the first tragedy. Otherwise, the current wave of enthusiasm for addressing world poverty will repeat the cycle of its predecessors: idealism, high expectations, disappointing results, cynical backlash." "Let’s call the advocates...
hey buddy, what size do you want? we just added this cool thing where you can add your top bands to your blog. login and look for the "add to my site" button. cheers, j
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