The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahh, did you have a nice break curled up on the couch watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on NBC?
Or did you spend too much time arguing with relatives about politics while stuffing your face and drinking too much?
For me, it was a lazy Thursday morning watching the parade, which included the first appearance by the University of Alabama’s “Million Dollar Band” at the event introducing Santa Klaus with their rendition of “Santa Klaus is Coming to Town.”
#RollTide #HappyThanksgiving2021
Around lunchtime on Thursday, I broke down the media camper van and headed over to College Park for Thanksgiving cheer and dinner. We all had a good time and didn’t even talk about politics or the news, because the educated, intellectual liberals who live around here all agree the Trump Republicans are all totally nuts and should never be trusted to govern in this democracy.
We got in a game of croquet with the neighbors before dinner, and I was back in the campground for an early snooze not long after dark.
This is the official beginning of the slow news period known as the Christmas-New Years holidays in America, when Congress stands mostly in recess and we should all get a break from the news.
Although Congress will be back soon for a few days because there is still a budget to deal with before they can go home for Christmas to campaign for reelection.
Obviously it will be harder to produce more news from here as the work of the national government slows down. But we are always on the lookout for those untold stories nobody else is covering, or framing the stories in a way more people can understand them and publishing them free online for all those poor people who will not or cannot afford to pay for a digital news subscription.
It would be naive to think the news will stop happening at all over the next month, so we will cover the stories we can get to as they happen.
But we are going to need your help to put together the budget to cover more.
We reached our fund raising goal last month to recover expenses from this winter, spring and summer. But we just put up a new GoFundMe campaign to cover our expenses of operating inside the Beltway for the winter.
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Thanks from all of us at the New American Journal and we hope you have a safe and happy holiday season.
We hope your favorite candidates win in next year’s elections. The 2022 midterms are going to be an interesting ride, no matter which side wins, although you know where we stand in the interest of saving democracy and the planet.
More Fall Photos
Autumn color 2021 in Lafayette Square by the White House, across the street from the Hay-Adams 5-star hotel: Glynn Wilson
Autumn color in Greenbelt Park, Maryland: Glynn Wilson
Autumn color in Greenbelt Park, Maryland: Glynn Wilson
Autumn color in Greenbelt Park, Maryland: Glynn Wilson
AFTERNOON CALM – Spend some time by a creek in fall, take a break from the troubles of the world, and sooth your soul: Glynn Wilson
A barred owl [Strix varia] out in a rare morning in Greenbelt Park, Maryland: Glynn Wilson
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Great photos-some how, after reading your article, I was reminded about the battle for Hue and our bought and sold politicians campaigning for reelection-environmental issues in particular… There was a great quote, at that time, in a national magazine: In Order for Hue to be Saved, it had to be Destroyed. That pretty much is where we are today (?)