From CNBC, Citigroup’s former and legendary Chairman and CEO Sandy Weill made news in an interview today with “Squawk Box.” Shorter message: Break up the big banks. “What we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking, have banks be deposit takers, have banks make commercial loans and real estate loans, [...]
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If All We’re Paying Attention to is the 2012 Campaign, We Don’t Know What’s Going On
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. It’s been a while since I’ve said this, so here goes, in two parts. First, the Occupy movement is helping create space for vital public conversations. Second, the Two Party Front for the Oligarchy becomes more powerful with each passing election cycle. We have the [...]
‘They May Have a Vote, but They Have No Voice’: Matt Stoller
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Obama and Romney continue providing regular entertainment – including dueling singing candidate ads – for the media, who then have another “story,” if not substantive news, to deliver. Record breaking fundraising continues, with corporations as people and anonymous contributions at the center. Another staple also [...]
From Labor Unions: A ‘Workers Stand for America’ Philadelphia Rally
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Though with a bi-partisan tone, the Workers Stand For America Rally (August 11) is more about the Democratic than Republican Party. This action is clearly within the Two Corporate Party system, and at least in what I’ve seen, there is no mention of the outside [...]
‘We the Electorate’ Are Seen as Numbers, Not People
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. One reason I started thinking in terms of “We the Electorate,” though “We the People” is much more appealing, is because we aren’t actually seen as people, with real lives and perspectives. We aren’t seen as individual voters, but in terms of how we add [...]
Survey Says, ‘Financial Services Professionals Feel Unethical Behavior May Be a Necessary Evil’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Subtitle of this post: Why OWS Remains Active and Important A press release from Labaton Sucharow LLP, July 10, 2012, Financial Services Professionals Feel Unethical Behavior May Be a Necessary Evil and Have Knowledge of Workplace Misconduct is not surprising in its conclusions, but no [...]
Studies Are Wrong, Happiness Isn’t About Conservative Or Liberal
CONSERVATIVES ARE happier than liberals? That’s the analysis offered here. Wrong. Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the happiness edge. Many data sets show this. For example, the Pew Research Center in 2006 reported that conservative Republicans were [...]
‘Spoiler’ Alert: Non-Duopoly Greens and Libertarians on ‘Obamacare’ and More
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. UPDATE at end. The Green Party presidential candidate is Jill Stein. The Libertarian presidential candidate is Gary Johnson. In the world of the Duopoly, these candidates play, at best / worst, a “spoiler” role. From the The Green Party: “Another U.S. is possible. Another party [...]
Queer Talk: The Erotic, Class and Other Things That Don’t ‘Fit’ the Mainstream LGBT Narrative
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Who gets to decide the goals and the strategies of the “LGBT Movement”? To a very significant extent, people in positions of relative power make these decisions. That doesn’t mean such people are always wrong, or that other voices are never heard. But it’s a [...]
My Party is Less Bad Than Your Party at Presiding Over the Collapse of the Nation!
By Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Americans Elect was a bust. The Green, Libertarian, etc., “third” parties are having their usual struggle to get more than passing attention from most everyone outside those already involved, and deserve much credit for continuing their efforts. Both Obama and Romney are raising astounding [...]
Rielle Hunter Met Her Perfect Match with the Idiot Pretty Boy
I couldn’t imagine I was, given I was 43 and had never been pregnant. Johnny and I never used birth control, but I was always mindful of my cycle and I was certain that I had never been ovulating during any of my visits with Johnny. [...] I discovered (to my shock and surprise) that [...]
Poverty is Growing in the ‘Exceptional’ USA, But It Isn’t a Campaign Concern
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Seriously addressing the increasing levels of poverty will not be done by Obama or Romney. It is being addressed by hunger, homeless and health care advocates, Occupiers, 99%-ers, and others, but we won’t hear much if anything about that from Campaigns or media. Like poverty, [...]
‘A More Guilty Party’ Vs. ‘A Party That Sucks the Least’
By Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The “lesser of two evils” description of how one chooses to vote comes in other versions, like “there is a more guilty party,” “one of these lies more than others,” and “a party that sucks the least.” To the extent we’re willing to accept [...]
“Bipartisan Avarice” and Citizens United in the 2012 Election
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The SCOTUS decision – generally referred to as Citizens United – declared that corporations are people just like you and me. That is, of course, if we’re citizens / people who have millions to spend on elections. But could Citizens United actually help unite we [...]
Your 2012 Pre-Approved Choices: ‘Believe’ or ‘Forward’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The Republicans (generalization acknowledged) can’t develop a vision for 2012, much less the future, because they’re wedded (one man, one woman style) to a mythical vision of the nation and it’s “traditional” past. They stumble frequently because it’s hard to look backward and pretend to [...]
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