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About Public Comments
Public Comments is an occasional (about
every month, sometimes slightly more often) series of essays
on civic life, public engagement, civil discourse, ethics,
and what those ideas mean in today's world. I send an email
to those who have expressed interest when significant new
pieces go online -- but, I try to make sure I don't send
too many emails. I don't announce every new article. You
can let me know you're interested by using the form at the
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I began Public Comments
in late 2003 as a place to publish some of the essays that
I was then working on. (Here's the first
one.) For some years now, I have been writing op-ed
length pieces and submitting them to this or that newspaper.
I like the discipline writing in about 800 words gives:
one has about three points one can make, and one has to
marshall one's arguments in the best way one can, and with
the most economy. It is great discipline, and it tends to
force half-baked ideas out the window (though, surely, not
all of them!).
While I do self-publish Public Comments,
and it's on the Web, I don't think of it as a "blog."
I don't publish daily, and I see each piece as a separate
entity, rather than as a series of "posts." Many
editions of Public Comments are columns that run
in newspapers and, even when a column doesn't run in a paper,
it usually gets edited by someone other than myself before
it goes online. All that seems to be against the grain of
"typical" blogging.
Please let me know what you think. If you
like it, tell a friend. Subscribe (free) using the form
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Feel free to email me at rourke@bradrourke.com.
Thanks.
--Brad Rourke
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