Can factual reporting diligently investigated and brilliantly written still make a difference? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A new Red Scare threatens American democracy. This time, it’s not a deranged Senator from Wisconsin making all the noise and ruining lives. It’s the president himself, seemingly serving the interests of the new…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – You know me. It’s not my way to just blow smoke, make shit up and sensationalize the facts with pretension to get attention and traffic. There’s clearly no money in that anyway, in contradiction to what everyone thought about the internet in…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SELMA, Ala. – As fate would have it, no real plan of my own, I’m encamped in an undisclosed location somewhere off the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. On Sunday, the reenactment of that historic march will kick off once again, as it does…
ON THE RADIO – APR, NPR – “Bloody Sunday” through the lens of Spider Martin By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As people get ready to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts just…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – One of these days I’m going to find my way out of this concentric circle maze that seems to be my life. There has to be a secret door somewhere in the universe. What I need is a worm hole. Let’s just…
EDITOR’S NOTE – This will be my last political editorial column for awhile, as it appears I may be doing some reporting for Alabama Public Radio and maybe even NPR soon. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Well, I hope you are happy now, the half of America that voted…
The Big Picture – By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – Who will write the new American Pie for this tumultuous time in history? Camping for a few days down by the Tennessee River and contemplating our future – or if we even have one – I doubt it will be Taylor Swift…
“Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers And they’ve been known to pick a song or two (yes, they do) Lord, they get me off so much They pick me up when I’m feelin’ blue, now how ’bout you? “Sweet home Alabama (oh) Where the skies are so blue Sweet home Alabama Lord, I’m comin’…
By Danielle J. Brown – Maryland Matters – President Donald Trump is unleashing almost daily executive orders to reshape the federal government — and opponents, including the state of Maryland, are just as quickly filing legal challenges to block policies that put “Marylanders and Americans at risk.” That’s how Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) described…
‘We must all hang together or we will all surely hang separately.’ – Ben Franklin Guest Column – Dr. Timothy D. Snyder – Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University – “What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – “Listen to my story about a man named” … Not Jed, Dick. Not sure exactly why this popped into my head on Sunday morning. Maybe because I’ve been immersed in Southern music for the past few months, hanging out down the street from Nashville, Tennessee in Muscle…
By Glynn Wilson – To whom it may concern at the Freedom of the Press Foundation: You should be aware of the real story behind the Elon Musk-Hacker-Trump invasion of the Treasury Department and Social Security System data. The real story is Trump’s “Enemies List” – which was unconscionable even in Richard Nixon’s corrupt time…
Staff Report – A coalition of civil society groups sent a letter to interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Edward R. Martin, Jr. and congressional leaders on Tuesday demanding that Martin clarify public statements suggesting he would use his public office to threaten critics of Elon Musk and the new Department of Government…
It’s not clear who that might be now that he has the power of the presidency, complete with Supreme Court Immunity, and a guaranteed pardon for any crimes he commits with this massive breach of privacy and imminent threat to national security – By Glynn Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – Well folks, it was…
He has the power of the presidency now, complete with Supreme Court Presidential Immunity, and a guaranteed pardon for any crimes he commits with this massive breach of privacy and imminent threat to national security – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BREAKING NEWS – Get ready for the worst. Do not assume…
What about Christian charity? – “You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which…
There for the Birth of Southern Rock, he took the Muscle Shoals swampy sound to London and blended that with the Rasta island beat, creating a new sound that transformed Reggae for mainstream audiences in Europe and America. – A Draft Book Proposal in Progress By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – (Jan.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – (Jan. 2, 2021) – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around Los Angeles, and it’s not even fire season. In Washington,…
“Do not take what I say as if I were merely playing, for you see the subject of our discussion — and on what subject should even a man of slight intelligence be more serious? Namely, what kind of life should one live … the unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Sunday Reader…
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden delivered his last political speech on Wednesday evening in his last address to the nation from the Oval Office, issuing a dire warning about the state of the country with an “oligarchy” of the ultrawealthy on the verge of taking over and destroying American democracy in a “dangerous…
