a reluctant journalist, blogging the journalistic transformation. also: grammar nazi, musician, twentysomething, polish, american, writer.Tumblr (3.0; @savingink)http://savingink.com/A solution to the problem of teabagging: This argument comes courtesy of Fuck No Liberals: My...http://savingink.com/post/432169177http://savingink.com/post/432169177Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:36:00 +0100politicsThe other day, I stumbled upon a website that initially induced feelings of aesthetic nausea, but...http://savingink.com/post/395504984http://savingink.com/post/395504984Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:04:00 +0100Internetmediamemory<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky0fhzVDcE1qb6uozo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Behold, the savior of the newspaper industry.</p>http://savingink.com/post/395500102http://savingink.com/post/395500102Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:15:00 +0100news medianewspapers“You know American workers are in bad shape when a low-paying, no-benefits job is considered a...http://savingink.com/post/395497520http://savingink.com/post/395497520Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:11:00 +0100employmentpoliticsAs I wrote last month, I am conducting an experiment on myself to determine whether a simple lack of...http://savingink.com/post/395490248http://savingink.com/post/395490248Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:18:00 +0100psychologyscienceI will now show you how to waste countless hours in an activity that both kills time and makes you...http://savingink.com/post/395485249http://savingink.com/post/395485249Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:53:00 +0100writing After four straight days of spending all of my non-sleeping, non-working hours reading, I’ve...http://savingink.com/post/395469086http://savingink.com/post/395469086Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:49:00 +0100writingbooksDigital albums, vinyl made a comeback in '09 while CDs slide: Why is this a surprise? This is...http://savingink.com/post/395463405http://savingink.com/post/395463405Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:38:00 +0100music industryI’m going to attempt a public experiment. Since moving to Poland (a very, very cold climate)...http://savingink.com/post/395458672http://savingink.com/post/395458672Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:40:00 +0100depressionpsychologyIt’s a sad state of affairs to think that society’s traditional watchdog, the media,...http://savingink.com/post/395455796http://savingink.com/post/395455796Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:22:00 +0100journalismnews mediaIt’s all too often that, in the name of orderliness and simplicity, a dichotomy is established...http://savingink.com/post/395453166http://savingink.com/post/395453166Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:16:00 +0100philosophysociologypoliticsOr, it’s all about resources. A 10-person panel released a report for NASA today, titled...http://savingink.com/post/395438837http://savingink.com/post/395438837Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:19:00 +0200astronomyphilosophyscience“Kara Thrace: No, I know fear. And I get scared, just not of dying. Lee Adama: So then, what...http://savingink.com/post/395433804http://savingink.com/post/395433804Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:46:00 +0200philosophy<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky0dj5Jk2V1qb6uozo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Saturday was the first ever Atheist and Agnostic March in Europe, which I <a href="http://www.krakowpost.com/article/1626" target="_blank">wrote about </a>earlier. Surprisingly, the march itself went off without a hitch - I say surprisingly, because this is the city in which the annual <a href="http://savingink.com/post/395329917/tolerance" target="_blank">Tolerance March</a> is met with eggs and the occasional brick or stone. The only protest came from a small group of priests, who were outnumbered at least three to one by the police, and more like seven to one by the actual marchers.</p> <p>All in all, I’d say there were about 250 non-believers present, carrying various signs such as “Don’t pray for me” or “Live without sin - be an atheist!”, or my very favorite, the <a>Flying Spaghetti Monster</a> (above). We were an impressive sight, I’d say, walking through the Market Square and around the Planty, the green ring of park that surrounds Krakow’s Old Town. Curiously, the ages of the marchers varied greatly - while the majority were in their 20s as expected, there were some notable older marchers, including an EU Parliamentarian. And while the initially wet, miserable weather was almost enough to restore one’s faith (or reinforce a healthy sense of irony), the rain managed to stay light enough for the march to carry on without losing its momentum.</p> <p><img height="333" width="500" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/3997742763_16414924ec.jpg"/></p> <p>The group leading the event, the <a>Young Freethinkers</a>, aired their grievances to the crowd at the end of the march - these can be summed up as a general disdain for the influence the Catholic Church has on Polish politics and legislative decisions. Because after all, the march itself wasn’t really a protest or a movement, but rather a statement: We exist, and the country’s laws need to reflect this.</p>http://savingink.com/post/395429077http://savingink.com/post/395429077Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:49:00 +0200atheismreligion“Ultimately the Objectivist movement failed for the same reason that communism failed: it...http://savingink.com/post/395419189http://savingink.com/post/395419189Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:57:00 +0200capitalismobjectivismphilosophy“Murdoch startled the publishing world when he uttered a few sentences that were as simple as...http://savingink.com/post/395413579http://savingink.com/post/395413579Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:05:00 +0200journalismmusic industrynews mediaHaving a brain in overdrive mode is an exhilirating yet often frustrating feeling: that moment when...http://savingink.com/post/395407266http://savingink.com/post/395407266Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:34:00 +0200cognitionwriting<embed style="display:block" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:231388" width="360" height="301" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000"></embed><br/><br/><p><a>Link to Part 1</a></p> <p><a>Part 2</a></p> <p><a>Part 3</a></p> <p>Why is it that a fake news show on a comedy channel can showcase a calm, intelligent conversation between two sides on such a complicated issue as abortion, but no American news network can?</p> <p>As for my own views on the subject, I think I have worked out a compromise - because as Jon said, neither side will budge completely, so the only solution is to create a balance, otherwise this issue will (needlessly) continue to polarize discourse between the left and right in America indefinitely. So this is my proposal: first of all, a thourough, coherent process of education about contraceptives and sexual responsibility. Abstinence-only education has only harmed the generation subjected to it, and is not realistic or practical - luckily, most people on both sides have started to realize that.</p> <p>But besides that, abortion remains legal, but with restrictions: if it is a question of rape or an endangerment of the mother’s life, then it is always allowed, no questions asked. If it is elective, then there is a limit of time as to when it is allowed, which I propose should be the moment when the child, were it to be born/removed, could survive outside of the mother’s body. That gives the mother plenty of time to realize she is pregnant (<a>unless she’s one of the morons on <i>I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant</i>, but I’m not going to get into that</a>) and make a decision. It also means that the fetus is still just that - a collection of cells fully biologically dependent on the mother for its survival. It does not have the rights we share, like the right to life, until it can live on its own - that’s a logical conclusion, and the best way to end this debate once and for all.</p>http://savingink.com/post/395395763http://savingink.com/post/395395763Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:37:00 +0200news media““In general, we do not allow graphic or gratuitous violence on YouTube,” the company...http://savingink.com/post/395390531http://savingink.com/post/395390531Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:00 +0200journalism“My admittedly strange opinion is that we need to try harder with print. We can’t just give up...http://savingink.com/post/395358927http://savingink.com/post/395358927Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:42:00 +0200mediamusic industrynewspapers