home

James Krawczyk

link Michael Moore calls Obama out

He asks a basic and important question. If Obama campaigned on “change” and harsh criticism of the war, why will he soon announce that he is sending in more troops?

If Obama is continuing Bush-era war policies, where is the public outrage?

9 hours ago

November 30, 2009
Comments (View)
link How to "un-Google" yourself

Specific direction on how to make some of your online personal information more Google-proof.

12 hours ago

November 30, 2009
Comments (View)
text

Wow, ridiculous weather. That’s it, no more work today.

3 days ago

November 27, 2009
Comments (View)
text

Sonic BOOM! Welcome back to Earth, guys!

3 days ago

November 27, 2009
Comments (View)
photo Ready to earn my turkey tomorrow

Ready to earn my turkey tomorrow

5 days ago

November 25, 2009
Comments (View)
photo Building the prototypes that lead to the new Tony Hawk Ride. 
That’s a lot of duct tape. Article here.

Building the prototypes that lead to the new Tony Hawk Ride.

That’s a lot of duct tape. Article here.

5 days ago

November 25, 2009
Comments (View)
photo Ghettoblaster. (via suicideblonde)

Ghettoblaster. (via suicideblonde)

5 days ago

November 25, 2009
reblogged via suicideblonde
Comments (View)
quote

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: ‘From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.’

— Alexander Frasier Tytler, 1776
Comments (View)
quote
What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter. The United States is not only not saving nuts, it’s eating the ones left over from the last winter.
— William H. Gross, from this NYT article on the debt the US government faces.

1 week ago

November 23, 2009
Comments (View)
text

Playing with Google Wave. Anyone use it a lot?

1 week ago

November 23, 2009
Comments (View)
link NYT: Advice From Grandma

upsider:

“…At least six things have come together to fracture [the U.S.] public space and paralyze our ability to forge optimal solutions:

1) Money in politics has become so pervasive that lawmakers have to spend most of their time raising it, selling their souls to those who have it or defending themselves from the smallest interest groups with deep pockets that can trump the national interest.

2) The gerrymandering of political districts means politicians of each party can now choose their own voters and never have to appeal to the center.

3) The cable TV culture encourages shouting and segregating people into their own political echo chambers.

4) A permanent presidential campaign leaves little time for governing.

5) The Internet, which, at its best, provides a check on elites and establishments and opens the way for new voices and, which, at its worst provides a home for every extreme view and spawns digital lynch mobs from across the political spectrum that attack anyone who departs from their specific orthodoxy.

6) A U.S. business community that has become so globalized that it only comes to Washington to lobby for its own narrow interests; it rarely speaks out anymore in defense of national issues like health care, education and open markets.

These six factors are pushing our system, which was designed to have divided powers and to force compromises, into the realm of paralysis. To get anything big done now, we have to generate so many compromises — couched in 1,000-plus-page bills — with so many different interest groups that the solutions are totally suboptimal.” (Thomas L. Friedman, NYT)

1 week ago

November 23, 2009
reblogged via upsider
Comments (View)
photo More okra and a couple beans today.

More okra and a couple beans today.

1 week ago

November 19, 2009
Comments (View)
link Microsoft "engineering" viral buzz?

Some reports of fake bloggers and other seemingly-controlled videos posted to the internet lead some to believe Microsoft is faking/failing/engineering the viral buzz for Windows 7.

1 week ago

November 18, 2009
Comments (View)
photo Gotta transfer like, 10 gigs.
Toothpaste for Dinner.

Gotta transfer like, 10 gigs.

Toothpaste for Dinner.

1 week ago

November 18, 2009
Comments (View)