Brotherly Forced Love

Kerry Howley | April 28, 2006

National Volunteer Week is almost over, so put down those soup ladles and get ready for 51 weeks of unchecked self-absorption. The Bush administration has been promoting volunteerism since Thursday of last week -- and what better way than by executive order?

Comments

|4.28.06 @ 3:18PM|#

I get quite a lot of personal satisfaction from the volunteer work that I do (I coach a girl's soccer team). It's fun. If it wasn't, I wouldn't do it.

No, scratch that, I'm a "Soldier in the army of compassion". Ha ha.

|4.29.06 @ 1:34PM|#

I once had to give up some volunteer work I was doing, for a job.

The job didn't work out.

Lesson: self-interest often isn't.