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Sentient observers know that American state and local governments face a
historic crisis--that they are cutting vital services and raising taxes,
mainly on those already most stressed in diffic
On January 7 George W.
Critics of America's plans to oust Saddam Hussein militarily have
mounted powerful arguments, but not one has articulated a coherent
nonmilitary strategy to bring about the demise of the monstr
One of the great disappointments of recent decades is that Democrats
have more or less swallowed whole the underlying economic theories of
their Republican rivals.
One bubble burst, then another and another. Enron, Global Crossing,
WorldCom. The rectitude of auditors--pop. Faith in corporate CEOs and
stock market analysts--pop, pop. The self-righteous prestige of
Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase--pop and pop again. The largest bubble
is the stock market's, and it may not yet be fully deflated. These
dizzying events are not an occasion for champagne music because the
bursting bubbles have cast millions of Americans into deep personal
losses, destroyed trillions of dollars in capital, especially retirement
savings, and littered the economic landscape with corporate wreckage.
Ex-drinker George W. Bush explained that a "binge" is always followed by
the inevitable "hangover." What he did not say is that the "binge" that
has just ended with so much pain for the country was the conservative
Economic liberalism prevailed from the New Deal forward but broke down
in the late 1960s when it was unable to resolve doctrinal failures
including an inability to confront persistent inflation. Now market
orthodoxy is coming apart as a result of its own distinctive failures.
It can neither explain the economic disorders before us nor remedy them
because, in fact, its doctrine of reckless laissez-faire produced them.
The bursting bubbles are not accidents or the work of a few
larceny-prone executives. They are the consequence of everything the
conservative ascendancy sought to achieve--the savagery and injustice of
unregulated markets, the blind willfulness of unaccountable
We will be a long time getting over the conservative "hangover." It may
even take some years before politicians and policy thinkers grasp that
the old order is fallen. But this season marks a dramatic starting point
for thinking anew. Left-liberal progressives have been pinned down in
rearguard defensive actions for nearly thirty years, but now they have
to learn how to play offense again. Though still marginalized and
ignored, progressives will determine how fast the governing ethos can be
changed, because the pace will be set largely by the strength of their
ideas, their strategic shrewdness and, above all, the depth of their
convictions. That may sound fanciful to perennial pessimists, but if you
look back at the rise of the conservative orthodoxy, it was not driven
by mainstream conservatives or the Republican Party but by those
dedicated right-wingers who knew what they believed and believed, most
improbably, that their ideas would prevail.
The new agenda falls roughly into three parts, and the first might be
described as "restoring the New Deal." That is, the first round of
necessary reforms, like the Sarbanes bill already enacted, must
basically restore principles and economic assurances that Americans used
to enjoy--the protections inherited from the liberal era that were
destroyed or severely damaged by right-wing deregulation and corporate
corruption of government. Pension funds, for instance, lost horrendously
in the stock market collapse and face a potentially explosive crisis
because corporate managers gamed the pension savings to inflate company
profits. Employees of all kinds deserve a supervisory voice in managing
this wealth, but Congress should also ask why corporations are allowed
such privileged control over other people's money. Broader reform will
confront the disgraceful fact that only half the work force has any
pension at all beyond Social Security and set out to create tax
incentives and penalties to change this.
Another major reconstruction is needed in antitrust law, to restore and
modernize the legal doctrine systematically gutted by the Reagan era
(and only marginally repaired under Clinton). The financial debacle
includes scores of companies concocted by endless mergers that pumped up
the stock price but added no real economic value. Others sought to build
the dominance of oligopoly and have succeeded across many sectors.
Spectacular failures include AOL Time Warner and the airline industry.
Skepticism of unlimited bigness needs to be renewed and should start
with the banking industry--reining in those conflicted conglomerates,
like Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, created with repeal of the New
Deal's wise separation of commercial and investment banking.
New Dealers got a lot of things right, but the second dimension of new
progressive thinking requires a recognition that returning to the New
Deal framework is essentially a retrograde option (and not only because
the country is a different place now). Liberals ought to ask why so many
New Deal reforms proved to be quite perishable or why some of its
greatest triumphs, like the law establishing the rights of working
people to organize, have been perverted into obstacles for the very
people supposedly protected. In short, this new era requires
self-scrutiny and the willingness to ask big, radical, seemingly
impossible questions about how to confront enduring social discontents
and economic injustice.
Who really owns the corporation (clearly it's not the shareholders), and
how might corporations be reorganized to reduce the social injuries? Is
the government itself implicated in fostering, through subsidy and
tax-code favoritism, the very corporate antisocial behavior its
regulations are supposed to prevent? Congress, aroused by scandal, is
considering penalizing those companies that moved to Caribbean tax
havens yet still enjoy US privileges and protection. That's a good
starting point for rethinking the nature of government's corporatized
indulgences (old habits first formed in the New Deal) and perhaps
turning them into leverage for public objectives. To explore this new
terrain, we need lots of earnest inquiry, noisy debate and re-education
by a reinvigorated labor movement, environmental and social reformers
and ordinary citizens who yearn for serious politics, significant
A third dimension for new thinking is the economic order itself. During
the past two decades, a profound inversion has occurred in the governing
values of US economic life and, in turn, captured politics and elite
discourse--the triumph of finance over the real economy. In the natural
order of capitalism, the financial system is supposed to serve the
economy of production--goods and services, jobs and incomes--but the
narrow values of Wall Street have become the master. The Federal Reserve
and other governing institutions are implicated, but so are the media
and other institutions of society.
The political system is, of course, not ready to consider any of these
or other big matters. One of the first chores is to bang on the
Democratic Party, which, despite some advances, has expressed its fealty
to corporate money by clearing the fast-track trade bill and bankers'
bankruptcy bill for passage. This amounts to selling out principle and
loyal constituencies before the election, instead of afterward. Of
course the politicians are hostile--what else is new?--but now it's the
left that can say, They just don't get it.
Reversing the nation's deformed priorities will be a hard struggle but
has renewed promise now that the stock market bubble and other New
Economy delusions have been demolished. People do not live and work in
order to buy stocks. People exist in complex webs of relationships with
family, work, community and many other rewarding adventures and
obligations. The larger purpose of the economic order, including Wall
Street, is to support the material conditions for human existence, not
to undermine and destabilize them. If that observation sounds quaint,
it's what most Americans, regardless of ideology, happen to believe. If
our progressive objectives are deeply aligned with what people truly
seek and need in their lives, the ideas will prevail.
Thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbor by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
When did the great executive stock option hog wallow really start? You
can go back to the deregulatory push under Carter in the late 1970s,
then move into the Reagan '80s, when corporate purchases of shares
really took off with the leveraged buyouts and mergermania, assisted by
tax laws that favored capital gains over stockholder dividends and
allowed corporations to write off interest payments entirely.
Between 1983 and 1990, 72.5 percent of net US equity purchases were
bought by nonfinancial corporations. At the end of this spree the
debt-laden corporations withdrew to their tents for three years of
necessary restraint and repose, until in 1994 they roared into action
once more, plunging themselves into debt to finance their share
purchases. This was the start of the options game.
Between 1994 and 1998 nonfinancial companies began to load themselves up
with yet more debt. The annual value of the repurchases quadrupled,
testimony to the most hectic sustained orgy of self-aggrandizement by an
executive class in the history of capitalism.
For these and ensuing reflections and specific figures, I'm mostly
indebted to Robert Brenner's prescient The Boom and the Bubble,
published this spring with impeccable timing by Verso; also Robin
Blackburn's long-awaited book (now being released by Verso) on the past
and future of pensions, Banking on Death.
Why did these chief executive officers, chief financial officers and
boards of directors choose to burden their companies with debt? Since
stock prices were going up, companies needing money could have raised
funds by issuing shares rather than borrowing money to buy shares back.
Top corporate officers stood to make vast killings on their options, and
by the unstinting efforts of legislators such as Senator Joe Lieberman,
they were spared the inconvenience of having to report to stockholders
the cost of these same options. Enlightened legislators had also been
thoughtful enough to rewrite the tax laws in such a manner that the cost
of issuing stock options could be deducted from company income.
It's fun these days to read all the jubilant punditeers who favor the
Democrats now lashing Bush and Cheney for the way they made their
fortunes while repining the glories of the Clinton boom, when the dollar
was mighty and the middle classes gazed into their 401(k) nest eggs with
the devotion of Volpone eyeing his trove. "Good morning to the day; and,
next, my gold:/Open the shrine, that I may see my saint."
Bush and Cheney deserve the punishment. But when it comes to political
parties, the seaminess is seamless. The Clinton boom was lofted in large
part by the helium of bubble accountancy.
By the end of 1999 average annual pay of CEOs at 362 of America's
largest corporations had swollen to $12.4 million, six times more than
what it was in 1990. The top option payout was to Charles Wang, boss of
Computer Associates International, who got $650 million in restricted
shares, towering far above Ken Lay's scrawny salary of $5.4 million and
shares worth $49 million. As the 1990s blew themselves out, the
corporate culture, applauded on a weekly basis by such bullfrogs of the
bubble as Thomas Friedman, saw average CEO pay at those same 362
corporations rise to a level 475 times larger than that of the average
manufacturing worker.
The executive suites of America's largest companies became a vast hog
wallow. CEOs and finance officers would borrow millions from some
complicit bank, using the money to drive up company stock prices,
thereby inflating the value of their options. Brenner offers us the
memorable figure of $1.22 trillion as the total of borrowing by
nonfinancial corporations between 1994 and 1999, inclusive. Of that sum,
corporations used just 15.3 percent for capital expenditures. They used
57 percent of it, or $697.4 billion, to buy back stock and thus enrich
themselves. Surely the wildest smash and grab in the annals of corporate
When the bubble burst, the parachutes opened, golden in a darkening sky.
Blackburn cites the packages of two departing Lucent executives, Richard
McGinn and Deborah Hopkins, a CFO. Whereas the laying off of 10,500
employees was dealt with in less than a page of Lucent's quarterly
report in August 2001, it took a fifteen-page attachment to outline the
treasures allotted to McGinn (just under $13 million, after running
Lucent for barely three years) and to Hopkins (at Lucent for less than a
year, departing with almost $5 million).
Makes your blood boil, doesn't it? Isn't it time we had a "New Covenant
for economic change that empowers people"? Aye to that! "Never again
should Washington reward those who speculate in paper, instead of those
who put people first." Hurrah! Whistle the tune and memorize the words
(Bill Clinton's in 1992).
There are villains in this story, an entire piranha-elite. And there are
victims, the people whose pension funds were pumped dry to flood the hog
wallow with loot. Here in the United States privatization of Social
Security has been staved off only because Clinton couldn't keep his hand
from his zipper, and now again because Bush's credentials as a voucher
for the ethics of private enterprise have taken a fierce beating.
But the wolves will be back, and popgun populism (a brawnier SEC, etc.,
etc.) won't hold them off. The Democrats will no more defend the people
from the predations of capital than they will protect the Bill of Rights
(in the most recent snoop bill pushed through the House, only three
voted against a measure that allows life sentences for "malicious
hacking": Dennis Kucinich and two Republicans, Jeff Miller of Florida
and the great Texas libertarian, Ron Paul). It was the Senate Democrats
in early July who rallied in defense of accounting "principles" that
permitted the present deceptive treatment of stock options. Not just Joe
Lieberman, the whore of Connecticut, but Tom Daschle of the Northern
Popgun populism is not enough. Socialize accumulation! Details soon.
Events in Washington are potentially momentous, but hold the applause.
In late May, the Dow was at 10,300, but by mid-July it had dropped
almost 2,000 points. The Nasdaq and S&P indexes are at zero gain for
the past five years, as if the bubble never occurred. This slow-motion
crash induced even the most obedient right-wing lapdogs to scurry aboard
the Sarbanes reform bill, and the Senate passed it, 97-0. The President
made two malaprop-laced pep talks to recast himself as Mr. Reformer Guy
(and knocked another 500 points off the Dow). But W. is a lagging
political indicator these days. Even Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan has lost his touch. For years he celebrated the new economy
and refused to take any action that might have worked to curb its
excesses; a bit late he tells us "irrational exuberance" was actually
"infectious greed." Now, with fear overtaking that greed in the markets
and thus in Washington, the ingredients are present for an ideological
sea change in American politics. But not yet.
Democrats, newly awakened to the potency of Enron-like financial
scandals, are throwing smart punches at the business-friendly White
House, but they are six months late to the cause (and still sound less
convinced than Republican maverick John McCain). The passage of Senator
Sarbanes's legislation is meaningful, but Democratic leaders choked on
the hard part--reforming stock options and giving workers a voice in
managing their own pension savings. Why mess up fundraising with those
high-tech companies dumping "New Dem" millions on the party of working
people? Majority leader Tom Daschle, who lamely promised a vote
(someday) on the stock-option issue, will be revealed as another limp
corporate shmoozer if he fails to deliver. So far, the Coca-Cola
directors have more courage than he. Likewise, Senator Joseph Lieberman
can doubtless raise millions from Silicon Valley for his presidential
ambitions by defending the corporate hogs but, if so, he should rethink
which party will have him.
The Republicans are in a deeper hole, of course. If Bush wants to bring
his much-touted "moral clarity" to the reform cause, he'll have to drop
the weepy speeches and dump Harvey Pitt as SEC chairman and Tom White,
the Enronized Army Secretary. Then Bush should take his own medicine and
come clean, open the secret SEC records of his insider cashout as a
director of Harken, and do the same for the SEC investigation of Vice
President Cheney's stewardship as CEO of Halliburton. Republican zealots
and their attack-dog newspaper, the Wall Street Journal,
exhausted the nation with their pursuit of the Clintons on Whitewater.
Stonewalling by the Bush White House promises to make these far more
serious financial matters a permanent theme of the Bush presidency.
The reforms currently in motion are a good start, but no more, as
William Greider notes on page 11. We know what to expect from the
Republicans--stubborn maneuvering and guile designed to stall real
change until (they hope) the stock market turns around and public anger
subsides. But Democrats have a historic opening far greater than this
fall's elections--the opportunity to revive their role as trustworthy
defenders of the folks who have always been the bone and sinew of the
party, the people who do not get stock options and who deserve a much
larger voice in Washington. If Democrats take a pass on the facts before
them, they deserve our scorn. If they find the courage to break out of
the corporate-money straitjacket and once again speak for the public,
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Finances, panel blow-out at Yankee raise concernsBy Susan Smallheer
Staff Writer | March 21,2013BRATTLEBORO Changes in the energy marketplace have forced Entergy Nuclear to write down the value of Vermont Yankee nuclear plant from $517 million to $162 million, prompting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ask for the companys financial projections for the next five years.
The NRC took the unusual step of asking for additional information from Entergy Nuclear about the finances of Yankee, citing a recent Entergy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The NRC on Wednesday released a letter it sent to Entergy about the request for financial information, and noted it had been discussing its concerns with Entergy since at least Feb. 14.
According to the letter, Entergy was forced to write down the carrying value of Yankee from $517 million to a fair value of $162 million.
But those changes prompted the NRC to ask for what it called updated pro formas for the operations and maintenance and cash flow for Vermont Yankee up to 2018.
The NRC staff requires further information to insure that the licensee is meeting NRC requrements for financial qualifications, said the letter, signed by Richard Guzman, senior project manager for the NRC.
Entergy, in its November 2012 filing with the SEC, cited pending legal and state regulatory matters, as well as future revenues and expenses, as the reasons behind its financial adjustments.
It said Guzman had been evaluating the plants continued operation quarterly since early 2010.James Sinclair, spokesman for Vermont Yankee, refused to answer questions about the NRCs move and Yankees finances.
We are in receipt of the request for information and will be responding to the NRC, he said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the NRC also announced that Yankee, which is currently shut down for refueling and maintenance, had a panel in the secondary containment of the reactor building blow out early Monday morning because of over-pressurization in the building. There are 40 such panels.
Robert Williams, an Entergy spokesman, said workers had started up the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system in the reactor building early Monday, but the exhaust fan did not come on, creating what he called a slight increase in air pressure in the pressurized building.
One of the relief panels dislodged, which it is designed to do, Williams said. The panel are designed to fall away in the face of intense pressure from tornados.
A 6-by-10-foot aluminum panel was blown out and landed dozens of feet away, on top of the turbine building. The panel is supposed to be attached to a wire rope, according to Uldis Vanags, the state nuclear engineer who sent a memo about the problem to members of the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel.
Both the NRC and Entergy said there was no discernable increase in the release of radiation from the reactor building with the hole. A temporary panel has been put in place.
NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said a senior health physicist had done calculations on whether the opening presented a public danger and concluded it did not.
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This incident is a downtime demonstration of the fact that secondary containment, as well as primary containment, is designed for failure of its ostensible purpose of containing radioactive releases in the event of a reactor accident, said Raymond Shadis, senior technical advisor for the New England Coalition.
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Shadis also cited the NRCs request for more financial information from Entergy, and he said he had testified during recent Public Service Board hearings on Yankees future relicensing about what Shadis called the precarious viability of Vermont Yankees future operations.
Now NRC too has its doubts as to whether VY even meets the financial qualifications for a license, he added.
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After last nights presser, I really did feel sorry for gsp. Now I just want him to remain healthy and come back stronger than ever and beat Hendricks desicevely or just retire.
After last nights presser, I really did feel sorry for gsp. Now I just want him to remain healthy and come back stronger than ever and beat Hendricks desicevely or just retire.
That's exactly what I was thinking.I just assume GSP's about to have an unplanned GSP Jr. That's all.
Knocked Up some money hungry Ho and now she's threatening him with the kid and taking his money.
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i dont but the gay theory. if he all of this was because he was gay, why would this just be bothering him now? he is 30 something years old. i dont think people in their 30s just become gay out of now where and want to temporarily leave their job because of it.
the only way i can see this being the scenario is if someone is trying to extort him however i think the pregnancy theory is much more likely. it is something that might affect someone that much and something a dick like dana white would say isnt a big deal.
Leben 'em dead and maimed
If I had to guess I am leaning more towards depression and the stress of being the top fighter on the planet has finally gotten to him.
Dude, Im a wrestler. Im the best wrestler in MMA. Wrestling IS, was and always has been the most dominate form of mix martial art on the planet. Thats all there is to it. We all know it, some people want to fight it, some people want doubt it but wresters rule the MMA world. -
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I think it's more the constant pressure of training and staying in shape during his fights. Does he get to enjoy the money he's making when he's constantly doing press conferences and training and watching his diet? Add on that the pressure to fight/compete/win in front of millions people and the stress of everyone asking when he's going to lose. He could just be burned out from being on top so long. Maybe he didn't really plan on fighting far after 30? You have to take what he says carefully as he was tired, likely not in the best mind set, and speaking in his non native tongue. Let's hold the sexuality speculation for at least a few more interviews.
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I personally hope that he gets his head on straight, or whatever, and comes back more intense and focused. IF he doesn't retire, I think GSP comes back with a vengeance. Oh, and Dana White is being a bit of a douche about GSP needing some time off. Dana has to remember that besides everything Georges has done for him and the UFC, Dana needs him not the other way around. Give the poor guy a break.....
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Hey, who knows, it could be a very sick relative, recent changes in family(death, divorce, etc). Just because the guy handles stress very well in his professional life doesnt mean he can handle it in his personal life. I for one will hold out on speculation until there is some more concrete, less emotional statements issued from GSP's end.
Also, Dana needs to get on the same list of "I need a publicist" right behind Jones. Time for a filter between Dana and the media maybe?
Also also, if it does have something to do with GSP's sexuality, do what you gotta do man. I dont care who he wants to have sex with, as long as he's happy, and its not my girlfriend. The fact that its even this much of an issue (despite the fact that most of the opinions Ive read has been very supportive) shows me just how far from equality our society still is.
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: SCOTUS Takes on Same-Sex Marriage
Tonight, you'll hear on the news that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the "gay marriage cases." Much of the mainstream (i.e., straight) media will be treating the two cases they've taken—a challenge to California's ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, and a challenge to DOMA, the federal law that prohibits the government from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in the states—as essentially the same. Don't be fooled. The cases are very different. The fact that SCOTUS has taken both has a lot of us very worried.
Let's start with the more famous one: the Prop. 8 case. This is the one we did not want the Court to take. At its simplest, the lawsuit—brought by star lawyer team Ted Olsen and David Boies—is asking the Court to consider whether Prop. 8 is constitutional; it's about whether there's a fundamental right for same-sex couples to marry. When the California electorate passed Prop. 8 in 2008, you may recall, it overturned the state supreme court's decision to allow same-sex couples to enter civil marriages. Prop. 8 undid that by amending the Constitution to restrict marriage to one man and one woman. Then, a federal district court judge ruled that all Americans had a fundamental right to marry someone of their choice, with no restrictions based on sex. That decision was so broad it made many of us nervous: We didn't want to ask for such a broad ruling from the Supreme Court before we'd won the right to marry in more states. Fortunately, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed the scope of the lower court's ruling. It said, essentially, that the California electorate did not have the right to overturn marriage rights after they had been granted. That limited the effect of a Supreme Court decision to California and other states that have passed and then rescinded gay-marriage rights. If SCOTUS had refused to take this case, the Ninth Circuit ruling would have stood, and California same-sex couples would be able to marry. But the Court took it up, which puts off any potential marriages in California at least until June.
The DOMA cases, on the other hand, ask the Court to consider a far more limited question. They involve couples who are lawfully married in the state where they live. For Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in one of the cases, it was the state of New York. But under DOMA's Section 3, the federal government has refused to treat Edie Windsor and all the rest of us as married for things like taxes, inheritance, immigration, federal pensions, family insurance coverage, Social Security benefits, and so on. Traditionally, states have had jurisdiction over marriage; they alone defined who married, and the U.S. government recognized these marriages. The DOMA questions are essentially two: First, can the U.S. federal government deny recognition to one class of lawfully married people, or is that an unconstitutional denial of equal protection under the law? Second, can the federal government usurp the states' constitutional power to define marriage? Every single federal court that's heard a DOMA case has struck Section 3 down. According to Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry, that's ten different federal court rulings, including two appeals court rulings. And pretty much everyone I've spoken to on this—and I've interviewed widely—expects that at least five, and possibly six, justices will strike down DOMA section 3.
All the hope lies in Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the beautiful and sweeping pro-gay-rights opinion in the two cases we've won up at the Supreme Court: 1996's Romer v. Evans and 2003's Lawrence v. Texas. In Romer, the Supreme Court overturned a Colorado constitutional amendment, passed by ballot initiative, that banned any city or town from passing laws protecting lesbians and gay men from discrimination. Get that? The majority could not tell the minority it wasn't allowed to protect itself. Or as Kennedy wrote, Colorado Amendment 2 "is at once too narrow and too broad. It identifies persons by a single trait and then denies them protection across the board. The resulting disqualification of a class of persons from the right to seek specific protection from the law is unprecedented in our jurisprudence."
Kennedy also wrote the opinion in Lawrence, which said states could not ban private, consensual intimacy between two adults, even if they were the same sex—striking down the nine remaining state laws that presumed any lesbian or gay man a felon.
Everyone I've spoken to has assumed that Kennedy will stay consistent in his position on individual liberty, and will strike down DOMA's Section 3. I've even heard speculation that Chief Justice John Roberts will want to be on "the right side of history," and will do so as well.
Here's the interesting thing: In both cases, the Supreme Court has instructed the lawyers to talk to them about "standing." Standing is a narrow technical question that could well decide what happens. Essentially, the question is: Who has the right to argue these cases in court? In the Prop. 8 case, state of California officials refused to argue in favor of the constitutional amendment. Prop. 8's backers—the ones who had worked to get the initiative on the ballot—undertook the appeal. But did they have the right to argue on behalf of the state if the state chose not to? If they did not, then conceivably the Ninth Circuit's ruling is invalid—because no one had the right to argue the case. California's couples would be free to marry under the district judge's ruling.
The Court has also instructed the lawyers to talk about standing in the DOMA case, or as it put it, "Whether the Executive Branch's agreement with the court below that DOMA is unconstitutional deprives this Court of jurisdiction to decide this case." Obama's Justice Department declared last winter that it, too, believed DOMA Section 3 is unconstitutional. Since then, DOJ has been on the side of same-sex married couples, arguing that the courts should strike DOMA down. Does BLAG—the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group deployed by House Speaker John Boehner and the House of Representatives—have the right to argue the case?
In sum, here's what we know: The Supreme Court will be considering whether it was constitutional for California voters to roll back same-sex marriage and whether or not the federal government can ignore my Massachusetts marriage (and others in Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Washington, Washington D.C., and any others that may come along before June). There are a lot of "ifs" left. Which "side" agreed to hear the cases—the conservative four or the liberal four? Is anyone there thinking about a broad ruling in the Prop 8 case, which would allow same-sex couples to marry in every state (God, I hope not; I can only picture a national revolt. It's too soon for that!) Will it rule on the "scrutiny" issues: Does sexual orientation count as a disfavored, and protected, identity, or are laws affecting people because they are or are not lesbian or gay valid laws? Will they slide out of making any big decisions on procedural grounds, putting off broad rulings until a later day when public opinion has settled more firmly on the side of equality? Make no mistake: SCOTUS is paying attention to the fact that four states voted on the freedom-to-marry side just a month ago. They see where things are heading. Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito won't vote with us, but Roberts and Kennedy are certainly looking at how history will view them. When I got Eeyore-ish on Twitter about the fact that SCOTUS had decided to take the Prop 8 case, one of my Twitter followers said: "I like you, E.J., but I hope you're as wrong about this as you were about Maryland!" I cannot tell you how strongly I hope that's true.
Sat, 2012-12-08 01:44
"Is anyone there thinking about a broad ruling in the Prop 8 case, which would allow same-sex couples to marry in every state (God, I hope not; I can only picture a national revolt. It's too soon for that!)"
Why would there be a national revolt against a view that most Americans now share - that same-sex marriage should be legal?
Conservatives would, of course, attempt to reverse the ruling by means of a constitutional amendment. And they would fail, because they do not have the necessary support in Congress or the states to pass such an amendment - more than one-third of both houses of Congress support same-sex marriage and more than two-fifths of the states do, too.
If anything, the conservative outrage and effort to overturn the ruling would reinforce the notion that the Republican Party is out-of-touch with the concerns of most Americans - even those who oppose same-sex marriage simply don't feel that strongly about it, and would find the passions on the right baffling.
So really. There is nothing to fear.
Sat, 2012-12-08 19:29
The Ninth Circuit Court didn't recognize the standing of the proponents of Prop. 8 out of thin air. The Ninth Circuit certified the question to the California Supreme Court who held when a proposition's constitutionality is questioned and the executive branch declines to argue on its behalf in court, the proponents of the proposition have standing to argue in its defense as a matter of California law. The proponents gained standing because California law recognizes them as the appropriate party. Otherwise, a governor and AG could simply not defend any proposition they oppose and the proposition would lose whatever the expressed will of the people.
Because California law recognizes the proponents, the Ninth Circuit recognized them as proper appellants with standing. I don't see how the US Supreme Court can refuse to recognize the proponents without taking from California is right to decide who may defend its laws. While the US Supremes may not like others stepping into the shoes of government, they can hardly tell California who as what state power and private parties defending government interests is hardly new or rare (ask any small California business about private lawsuits to enforce California Disability Act).
Thus, I think the standing issue was taken up more to confirm the process by which the parties were recognized than to give the US Supreme Court an out. The out would have been to not take the cases at all.
No offense here, but these things are a done deal and we are just playing out the script for fun. The Supremes require only four votes to take up an issue. The four conservatives could have voted to take up marriage equality, but why would they do so without certain knowledge of Kennedy's vote? Same for the four liberals. Why take up THE explosive issue of the last 50 years if you are going to hand a victory to the other side? Thus, the only way one group of four voted to take this issue up is if they knew how Kennedy would decide. As the Supremes did take the case up, one block or another knows Kennedy's vote and grabbed this chance to either advance or hinder marriage equality.
There is an old adage in the law to not ask any question of a witness on the stand to which the answer is not know. That applies here. That questions about marriage equality were asked means someone knows the answer. Sometime in June or July, we all will know the answer.
Sun, 2012-12-09 10:03
I'm with you on this issue - I'm deeply concerned.
My sense is that the justices believed they could not avoid either DOMA or Prop 8 litigation. The issues are too pressing. At the same time, the court doesn't want to get ahead of popular opinion nor lag too far behind it. The DOMA decision is an easier one - ultimately this law is going away. The next Democratic Congress will repeal it. Finding it unconstitutional now is not a big deal. It's pretty much in keeping with public opinion.
Prop 8 is another matter entirely. I'm deeply worried. Granting that Olson and Boies have done an amazing job litigating this case, this particular Supreme Court feels like a wild card to me. They could issue a ruling that cripples gay rights for decades or one that legalizes gay marriage in all 50 states. My instincts tell me we'll see a much more narrow ambiguous ruling. If it favors same sex marriage in California, the dissent will be thundering, furious and provide right wingers with decades of legal fodder. Given the stakes in this case, there's no other response than being deeply worried.
Sun, 2012-12-09 22:42
I'm hoping that eventually the whole "institution" of marriage is outlawed completely as an artifact of a patriarchal past.
The government has no business whatsoever in sanctioning with whom I wish to spend my life and I have no need of registering my affections with any governmental authority.
The only reason why I'd consider marriage at the moment is to magically transfer health insurance benefits to my partner. Beyond that, I see absolutely no reason for it and if we had a sane health insurance system in this country, even that would not necessary.
I hate to go all Libertarian on you (I'm not one) but the balance of any obligations could be handled through simple contract law.
Whether I want to "marry" a man, a woman, one of each, or some random combination of humans, furniture, and kitchen appliances is nobody's business but mine and my partners.
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Length in Back: 32 1/2"
Bust (all around): 46"
Sleeve Length (from shoulder seam): 13"
Rated 3.9 out of 5Â by 17 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5Â by HannahW Beautiful top! I'm so glad I ordered this, I can tell it's going to be one of my go-to tops for a long time. I got the eggplant/beige (which is a lovely deep purple and cream, although it looks almost black and white in the pictures) and I will probably get it in the indigo as well. The fabric is PERFECT - so soft and cozy while still draping nicely and having some stretch. The neckline is loose and a little lower than a lot of FP tops, but I love it. I also really like the shoulder detail, which I was a little worried would look strange and ill-fitting but looks very intentional and adds a bit of interest to the top. Size-wise I would recommend ordering down; I'm between M and L (usually M), but I could have easily gotten this in S. The M is pleasantly loose on me. All in all this is a really great piece, simple but not boring. 6.7.2013
Rated 5 out of 5Â by jemjemjem new favorite I own this shirt in two colors: eggplant and the natural/black. I purchased the eggplant in a S and although it was a bit roomy, I still adore it. I will say, as the the other reviewers have mentioned, the color is far more purple than the apparent dark plum and the fabirc... well... let's just say I could live in it. Forever. Both go with just about everything, can easily be dressed up or down, and did I mention I could live in it?? For refernce: I'm 5'4, 110lbs, 32DD and decided between the two, the XS fits best (still with plenty of room). 1.21.2013
Rated 5 out of 5Â by BETSEY retro stripe 3/4 sleeve t The shirt is very flattering it is tight on me and ihave a bit of a tummy which I usually try to hide but amazingly this top is still flattering. I lgot the blue and ecru color and I like it. I got it at the sale price. It is not your average t-shirt as I said very flattering and I am plump. I think it proabobly runs tts. 9.1.2013
Rated 2 out of 5Â by mtrimmy Not quite there... In the photos the top looks loose and thin, but in reality it's actually thick and heavy. The fabric is stretchy as well so it drapes awkwardly, yet still hugs the body enough to show everything underneath. It's just not an ideal "throw on and go" top, which is what I thought it would be. As far as sizing goes, it fits normally. I'm 5'5 and 135 lbs. and got a M, but unfortunately I'll be returning it. 7.7.2013
Rated 4 out of 5Â by Tinimolina Beautiful eggplant top I got this top in the eggplant/beige color, which is an accurate description of the actual color of the tee (in the pictures it looks black). The fabric is really soft and has a nice flow. The back of the tee is a bit longer than the front, which gives it a nice touch. I'm 5,2'' 115 lb and the fit is a little bit odd. In the body and arms the XS is great, not too tight and not too loose, but I have to say the neckline on me fits kind of large. Other than that, I can see myself wearing this every day. 7.5.2013
Rated 3 out of 5Â by J'lou different colors, different fits I bought this great shirt in the navy; I ordered a small, I am 5'4 120 lbs. It fit great, neckline perfect, and I loved it so much I quickly ordered one in the eggplant, same size. But the fit is so very different...bigger, much lower neckline (twice as low - i would need to wear a cami under it).., and the pocket looked way out of place, down towards my waist, due to the low neckline. Very disappointed with second one, it is going back. I put the two shirts side-by-side to compare them, and the eggplant is indeed much larger than the blue, even though both are a size Small. Annoying! 5.31.2013
Rated 3 out of 5Â by kimbeebabop Basic but a good staple Yes the neckline is a little weird but I will be wearing it with a scarf and a coat so I'm not too bothered. The rest of the top fits fine. The arms are nice and snug and the loose fit body is comfortable and a nice change. I would recommend sizing down a size or 2 depending on what kind of look you are going for. I'm nearly always a FP XS (sometimes a S), so I went with and XS. Girls who are on the petite end of the XS spectrum, I would not recommend this piece for you (perhaps a little too big and you could end up swimming in it) 11.15.2012
Rated 1 out of 5Â by NalaMonster Soft but Strange Fit I really wanted to like this top, I purchased it in an XS. The arms fit well but the body fit would cling to all the wrong places. The way the pocket hung made the shirt look droopy in an unfashionable way. 11.13.2012
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The true story of Adam and Ross, two brothers who became millionaires while still in their 20's. They were among the first to market electronic terminals for credit card transactions. Confident and bold, they ignored warnings by the government to 'respond' to numerous complaints regarding their practices. Ultimately, they were nearly destroyed by the FTC, who sought to demolish their company at the behest of their competitors.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Whither America: A Foreign Policy Debate Among Realists, Nationalists, and Internationalists
Recorded: Tuesday, May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014
George Washington University, Washington D.C.
"The long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have sparked renewed debate about foreign policy within both political parties. William Kristol recently said that while Republicans generally agree on domestic policy, the real debate would be on foreign policy. Likewise, in the Democratic party, the more hawkish Clinton wing of the party continues its clash with the more dovish McGovernite wing. To focus on these differences, The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and The Independent Institute in Oakland, California are hosting a debate among the various foreign policy traditions. Please join us for this necessary and timely debate."
Ivan Eland is the Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute.
Henry R. Nau is the Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.
Michael Lind is co-founder of the New America Foundation.
Type: Other EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, Immigration, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Benjamin Powell on Economic Growth and Development: Are We Rome?
Recorded: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
A Powerpoint A/V presentation by Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell at FreedomFest 2013 in Las Vegas. Powell speaks to similarities of ancient Rome and our modern economic culture.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: Other EventIssues: Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Alvaro Vargas Llosa on Immigration, Civilization, and America
Recorded: Friday, June 21, 2013
Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings, describes who immigrants are and why they move, and he compares the immigrant experience today to that of previous eras, identifying far more similarities than differences at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
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Recorded: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland at CPAC
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How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor
Recorded: Saturday, October 27, 2012
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs speaks at The Arthur M. Krolman lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: "The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach". Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 27 October 2012.
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Recorded: Friday, July 13, 2012
Research Editor Anthony Gregory debates at FreedomFest 2012 with former British MP John Browne on the topic: Winston Churchill, great 20th century statesman or warmonger? Ron Holland is the moderator.
Experts: Anthony GregoryType: Other EventIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, History (International), Political Ideology and Philosophy
Professor Peter Boettke on Living Economics
Recorded: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Research Fellow Peter J. Boettke interviewed by Jeffrey Tucker of Laissez Faire Books and Club on his new book Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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Economic Liberty Lecture Series: Benjamin Powell
Recorded: Monday, April 23, 2012
Economic Liberty Lecture Series: Benjamin Powell from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.
On April 23, 2012, Benjamin Powell gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundations Economic Liberty Lecture Series. The speech, Implications of the Crash of 2008, can viewed above in its entirety.
Benjamin Powell is an associate professor of economics at Suffolk University, the President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, a senior economist with the Beacon Hill Institute, and a senior fellow with the Independent Institute. He earned his B.S. in economics and finance from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.
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Poultney man pleads guilty to sex assaultJanuary 09,2013A man charged with the rape of a 7-year-old girl pleaded guilty to the crime Tuesday in exchange for a plea deal that would allow him to avoid going to jail.
Charles A. Gould originally pleaded innocent to a felony charge of aggravated sexual assault against a victim under the age of 10 which prosecutors say took place in the year 2000.
But in exchange for a plea agreement amending the charge to drop the aggravating factor, sentencing him to a jail term of two years and six months to seven years with all jail time suspended, and placing him on probation Gould agreed to enter a guilty plea Tuesday.
The alleged rape was brought to the attention of police by a family member of the girl. But the woman, who was 18 before she told her story to police, didnt initially want to talk to authorities, according to state police Detective Trooper Scott Dunlap.
By corroborating the womans story with the accounts of others who were present on the day of the assault, Dunlap said investigators were able to verify her story and build a case against Gould.
The 32-year-old Gould remains free on a $25,000 unsecured appearance bond pending his sentencing, which has yet to be scheduled.
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Calf Bearer
Images of men carrying animals slung over their shoulders are found in Egyptian tomb reliefs and paintings of people bearing offerings for the dead from as early as the Old Kingdom. The fourth and third centuries B.C. provide a number of such images, including one in this vitrine, at least some of which were made for tombs. The purpose of this plaque, however, remains unknown. A few contemporaneous reliefs, including a second in this vitrine, provide parallels for the figure's frontality and for its extremely bold carving. Since most of the objects offering stylistic parallels originated in Lower Egypt, this plaque probably did as well.
- Culture: Graeco-Egyptian
- Medium: Faience or glass
- Place Made: Egypt
- Dates: 4th-3rd century B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XXX Dynasty
- Period: Late Period-Ptolemaic Period
- Dimensions: 3 1/4 x 2 7/16 in. (8.2 x 6.2 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 51.222
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Graeco-Egyptian. Calf Bearer, 4th-3rd century B.C.E. Faience or glass, 3 1/4 x 2 7/16 in. (8.2 x 6.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour fund, 51.222. Creative Commons-BY
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NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence
NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence is the integration of capabilities and overlapping operations of all services (air, land and maritime forces) to deter and defend all Alliance territory, populations and forces to ensure freedom of action by negating an adversary's ability to achieve adverse effects from its air and missile capabilities. It includes a network of interconnected systems to detect, track, classify, identify and monitor airborne objects, and – if necessary – to intercept them using surface-based or airborne weapons systems, as well as the procedures necessary to employ the systems.
NATO member countries started working together in the 1970s to establish an integrated air defence structure and system, combining national assets supplemented as needed by NATO elements. Operating together is both more effective and more efficient in protecting against air attacks than national air defence systems operating independently. With the advent of an Alliance ballistic missile defence (BMD) capability, this structure is now known as the NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence System (NATINAMDS). It comes under the command and control of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). The NATINAMDS is a cornerstone of NATO air and missile defence policy, and a visible indication of cohesion, shared responsibility and solidarity across the Alliance.
The NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence System is comprised of the four functional areas of 'Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence' 'Surveillance', 'Active Air Defence' and 'Passive Air Defence'. All four functional areas contribute to the Defensive Counter Air (DCA) mission and provide the basis for the protection of Alliance populations, territory and forces and the projection of air and missile defence firepower.
Depending on the mission, NATO Allies commit forces (land, air and maritime) which are assigned to SACEUR. However, the decision on the size and shape of the forces and their equipment to be provided remains a national responsibility.
The Air Command and Control System
Air Command and Control (Air C2) is essential to the success of any operation. The Air C2 structure in NATO is a patchwork of disparate and aging systems that in many cases are reaching the end of their planned operational life.
In recognition of the increasingly joint nature of military operations – as well as of the need to replace aging equipment – NATO has developed a new and more robust capability that will be a C2 system for all air operations. This system, called Air Command and Control System (ACCS), will facilitate the planning, tasking, execution and coordination of all integrated air and missile defence missions in peacetime, crisis and conflict. ACCS will support all of NATO's static and deployed operations and missions.
NATO air policing
NATO air policing is a peacetime mission which requires an Air Surveillance and Control System (ASACS), an Air Command and Control (Air C2) structure and Quick Reaction Alert (Interceptor) (QRA(I)) aircraft to be available on a 24/7 basis.. This enables the Alliance to detect, track and identify to the greatest extent possible all aerial objects approaching or operating within NATO airspace so that violations and infringements can be recognised, and the appropriate action taken.
Although not all Allies possess the necessary means to provide air policing of their airspace, other countries provide assistance when needed to ensure that no country is left at a disadvantage and equality of security is provided for all.
SACEUR is responsible for the conduct of the NATO air policing mission..
Theatre ballistic missile defence
In 2010, NATO fielded an Interim theatre ballistic missile defence capability to protect Alliance forces against ballistic missile threats.
Ballistic missile defence
At the 2010 NATO Summit in Lisbon, Allied leaders decided to develop a ballistic missile defence (BMD) capability to pursue collective defence. Specifically, they decided that the scope of the current Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) programme's command, control and communication capabilities would be expanded beyond the capability to protect deployed forces to also include NATO European territory, forces and populations.
The United States' European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) and other possible national contributions were welcomed as valuable national contributions to the NATO BMD architecture.
In May 2012 at the Chicago Summit, NATO leaders declared that the Alliance had achieved an Interim NATO BMD capability. This is a significant first step in implementing NATO's BMD capability. It offers the maximum coverage within available means to defend NATO's populations, territory and forces across southern Europe against a ballistic missile attack. The Alliance remains committed to installing full BMD coverage for all NATO European territory by the end of this decade.
The Air and Missile Defence Committee (AMDC) is the senior multinational policy advisory and coordinating body regarding all elements of NATO's integrated air and missile defence, and relevant air power aspects. It reports directly to the North Atlantic Council (NAC).
The Military Committee Working Group (Air Defence) is responsible for reviewing, advising and making recommendations on air and missile defence issues to NATO's Military Committee.
Other groups dealing with air and missile defence-related issues include NATO's Defence Policy and Planning Committee (Reinforced) with particular responsibilities on ballistic missile defence, the Missile Defence Project Group, the BMD Programme Office, and the NATO-Russia Council Missile Defence Working Group. In October 2013, NATO-Russia missile defence-related discussions were paused by Russia, and in April 2014, NATO suspended all cooperation with Russia in response to the Ukraine crisis.
AMDC and cooperation with partners
Since 1994, the AMDC has maintained a dialogue with NATO partner countries to promote mutual understanding, transparency and confidence in air defence matters of common interest.
The air defence partner cooperation programme includes fact-finding meetings with air defence experts, seminars and workshops, visits to air defence facilities and installations, joint analytical studies and a programme for the exchange of unclassified air situation data.


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Cynthia Atkins, lecturer in Roanoke's English department, publishes new book of poetry entitled "Psyche's Weathers"
The 52-poem collection is split into four sections, with each one representing a season of the year.
Cynthia Atkins, lecturer in Roanoke's English department, recently published a book of poetry entitled "Psyche's Weathers," which is a collection of poems that all derive from a common theme of weather. The book was published by WordTech Communications in 2007.
The 52-poem collection is split into four sections, with each one representing a season of the year. The book uses weather as a metaphor to explore various mental and psychological states of the soul or psyche. Atkins said that weather is a great metaphor for the ever changing "storms" in our souls.
"From a very young age, I had associated the weather with mood, as my father was bi-polar," Atkins said. "His mood swings cycles with his 'manic' states in the winter and the 'depressive' states in the summer, so I think that is where it started for me, as the weather and the season became the landscape for human mental temperaments."
Atkins found inspiration when writing the collection through jazz music, blues music, paintings and the weather. Calendars also influenced her in the creation of the collection, and she used each month as a sort of persona or character.
"I gathered images that, for me, represented that month or season and the various associations and contexts we have without moods and the weather," Atkins said.
Atkins has always had an interest in mental illness and she used this curiosity to fill her education on the human psyche. More specifically, Atkins is interested in when the mind goes awry and if artists are more prone to mental disease. She often has questioned if mental illness and the creative mind are one in the same.
"There is an amazing and irrefutable lineage of artists who have had bouts with mental illness, and I think it would be illuminating to understand why," Atkins said.
However, what Atkins stresses most in her writing and classes is how the mentally ill are marginalized and how this categorization negatively affects the perception society has on the mentally unstable.
"I think mental illness is still a very taboo and confusing subject in our culture, and I think we need to have more dialogue and debates about these issues that we have swept under the rug in the past," Atkins said.
Atkins' hope for "Psyche's Weathers" is that it will help to open up dialogue about society's perception of the mentally ill.
"[I am] using language people think about, what makes us tick, as well as what makes us tock," Atkins said. "The human mind is truly a mystery and a wonder, and I hope to keep exploring it in poems, people and art."
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