Breaking News – By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden announced on Twitter (X) on Sunday afternoon that he would comply with the wishes of many Democrats and abandon his bid for re-election, endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to replace him at the top of the ticket. The move may sooth some of the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Who does not want peace and quiet? Apparently kids, bots and Trump supporters. Maybe New Yorkers. Sitting outside for hours on a mountaintop this week, the quiet only broken by birds and frogs singing in the trees and an occasional whoop across the…
On the eve of Independence Day, six right-wing justices issued an unhinged and dangerous ruling – Guest Column – By Mitchell Zimmerman – If you hadn’t read the news in four years — or just arrived from another galaxy — the Supreme Court’s de facto grant of immunity to Donald Trump for his alleged federal…
American workers are not stupid. They’re getting fleeced and they know it. But until we rebuild large scale working-class power, it’s going to be a very rough ride – They’ll stone you when you’re at the breakfast table. They’ll stone you when you are young and able. They’ll stone you when you’re tryin’ to make…
Guest Column – By Joe Conason – Among right-wing Republicans, the incarceration of Stephen K. Bannon has provoked a torrent of sputtering rage. “I stand with Steve Bannon!” was the defiant slogan barked by scores of prominent figures on the right, after a federal judge ordered the fascist media personality and adviser to former President…
Our Journey Continues… The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – After suffering through a brutally hot global warming day on Tuesday, making our way back to the top of the mountain in the morning before noon to escape it somewhat, there’s a cool breeze up here on Wednesday morning at…
By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – While violent crime has dropped to pre-Covid pandemic levels nationwide, according to the latest crime report from Federal Bureau of Investigation, the changes weren’t the same everywhere. The crime rates remained elevated in dozens of cities around the country, including my home town of Birmingham, Alabama, which…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Not since the King and the Duke fooled the townspeople along the Mississippi River in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have so many people been fooled into believing in a scam by a bunch of grifters. I just had to laugh out…
By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented – ProPublica – A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. These previously…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – What a world. It may be the perspective of getting out of Washington and hanging out in the mountain woods, but I’m having a hard time remembering a time quite like this. It’s not hard to appreciate that people are mad at CNN…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – There has to be a better way. A better way to live. To eat. To communicate. To govern. To lead. To love. As many of you already know, from picking up on my hints, I am in search of these things for myself…
Connecting the Dots – By Glynn Wilson – Computer hacker-programmers have been creating bots to do various things since the 1990s. Bot is short for robot, although these bots don’t look like the robots from science fiction going back to the 1950s. If you use any search engine to ask “what is a bot?” you…
Should Joe Stay or Go? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Lord a-mighty this is exactly why I did not want to remain in Washington and wade into the middle of this Biden-Trump rematch. Well, that and the heat and humidity, the bureaucracy and the sheer burnout on being in one place…
To the editor, Joe Biden’s decision to stay in the presidential race at this point is incredibly selfish. He’s risking American democracy for the sake of his ego. I don’t know if Kamala Harris or whoever else would defeat Donald Trump, but I’m confident they have a better chance than an elderly man who can’t…
By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – While hunkered down in the mountains at the presidential retreat of Camp David last week preparing president and candidate Joe Biden to “debate” Republican challenger Donald Trump, what appears in retrospect to be a bad plan that went horribly awry, some members of the Biden campaign came…
By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Just as President Joe Biden is facing an “armageddon” of criticism for his performance against Donald Trump last Thursday, according to Politico and other news outlets, and numerous calls for him to step aside and let the Democratic Party choose another nominee at its convention in August…
“A story told is a life lived.” – Unknown The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – If the story of the 21st century is just going to end up being one hellscape disaster after another, until most of the countries of the world live under tyrannical dictators who ignore all…
By Glynn Wilson – The conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court issued a long-anticipated ruling on Monday claiming that former President Donald Trump is in fact entitled to some level of immunity from prosecution for his actions of engaging in a seditious conspiracy and inciting a violent insurrection against his own government on…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Camp David was designed as a presidential retreat not just from the heat and humidity of Washington. FDR actually commissioned it and called it “Shangri-La.” It was and remains a no press zone. It’s understandable why any president would want to keep out…
But there will be a party on the Fourth of July anyway, with fresh, locally grown tomatoes and plenty of good beer and vodka – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN PARK, Md. — As the sun rises in the forest down the street from Camp David, where President Joe Biden…
