Public Affairs - National Politics

How To Face the End of the World as the Republicans Win the House Too

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By Glynn Wilson – If this is not the end of the world, as we know it, I can’t wait to see the real thing. Oh wait, this can’t be it. It’s nothing like the dream. America is fooled again, and he probably won’t even have me killed for saying this. Donald Trump is the biggest, greatest con man of them all, of all damn time, no contest. No doubt Mark Twain would agree, if…

Travel - Tales From the MoJo Road

A Curve Into Birmingham: I Will Not Back Down

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – This feels surreal, like much going on in the world these days, even without hallucinogens. Everything feels like a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy, like the world depicted by artist M.C. Escher. And apparently that’s the…

Many Rivers to Cross Before I Find My Way Home

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Missouri – “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man,” Bob Dylan once sang in another anxious time. He found the answer, “blowin’ in the wind.” How many rivers must…

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Southern Politics

Early Voting Numbers Give Democrats Hope

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Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – HARRISBURG, Ark. – Not much is at stake in this election. Only the future of democracy itself. The stakes were so high in 2020 that nearly 63 percent of eligible voters in the United States cast ballots in the election, enough to block Donald Trump from remaining in…

The Arts - Music

Nobody Really Knows Me: A Rock and Roll Journey

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By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Close to 300 friends and followers of Birmingham musician Wayne Perkins, many from the east side of town who came of age in the 1970s listening to the Alabama Power Band play at The Crossroads in Roebuck, nearly filled the Steiner Auditorium…