The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ARGO, Ala. – You want to know a secret? Sure you do. Everybody wants to know a secret. Knock, knock Who’s there? Santa Clause and me Who’s me? Jesus No room at the Inn A color line even then How lives intertwine. So Santa, I have a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In a retrograde world where finding crumbs to eat might be enough to make the peons and peasants kiss up to the new king/dictator and the pope like they did in Shakespeare’s time, when monarchs ruled the world. But how in this world has it come to…
Game of Riddles No. 9 This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In chapter five of J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, and in the first of the…
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who helped lead a Congressional investigation into the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, called President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to imprison her and other members of the select House committee an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations…
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Buried under all the latest news dominating the cable news talk and social media traffic about President-elect Donald Trump’s insane choices of unqualified loyalists to serve in his cabinet, clearly a team designed to destroy the United States government from within, there have been a few…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – If we had only known that ignorance really was bliss, that human stupidity was the ultimate goal in life, that to be “woke” was not just a bad thing but the worst thing a person could strive to be, we could have saved ourselves…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Resistance may be futile. Unless you live in California. Apparently, the phrase “resistance is futile” appeared the first time on TV in a 1967 “Doctor Who” episode called “Tomb of the Cybermen.” In Star Trek’s “First Contact,” the voice of the Borg, spoken by…
Live with that if you can – “In absolute government, the King is law.” – Thomas Paine The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The news business is dead. Just ask The Washington Post: The latest news? Not right now, thanks. Long live the news writers who braved to tell it…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – It makes me a little sad that I could not be there at Gettysburg this year for the 161st anniversary of a legendary two minute speech that hinted at the end of fighting during the Civil War and began to move the United States…
Guest Column – By Matt Stoller – Big Tech On Trial Three and a half months ago, D.C. district Judge Amit Mehta found that Google broke antitrust law in monopolizing search and search advertising. In a tightly reasoned 277-page opinion, Mehta’s conclusion was that Google, by controlling the means of distribution of search engines through…
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 at the Birmingham Museum of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It should come as no surprise that the news of Donald Trump’s election again was greeted with glee in Moscow. Russian dictator president Vladimir Putin sent his congratulations to Trump after the news was announced, but not for the reasons you may imagine. According to Russian journalist…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – When the present goes wrong, hope for the future – or retreat into the past. Mark Twain didn’t say that. I just did. More on that in a minute. But on October 2, 1876, a speech of Twain’s was covered by The New York…
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…
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 way it’s going to be…
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 the same man cross, before…
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and hard it is to undo that work again!” – Mark Twain Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SOMEWHERE IN THE MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Missouri – While Democrats and sane people all over the country are freaking out on social…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – DEVIL’S DEN, Ark. – When the news came through loud and clear and all over the New York Times front page Wednesday morning that a majority of the American people are willing to roll the dice on another crazy term for a criminal and proven…
By Glynn Wilson – LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Welcome to four more years of chaos, confusion and the fall of the American empire. Donald Trump defied the odds again and managed to convince an astounding number of people that in spite of his criminal conviction, his business and first term failures and smash-mouth rhetoric against…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – Covering politics for the past 44 years, for the past decade mostly in Washington, D.C., I’ve seen some crazy, outrageous things in my time. But Republican Congressman Rick Crawford’s federal lawsuit for a pay raise and back pay may just take the cake. After…
