Glynn Wilson

There Has to Be A Better Way: Let’s Find It Together

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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…

Welcome to Botville: An Uncertain Computerized Future

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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…

Lord A-Mighty What Will Become of Us Arguing Beasts

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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…

Letter to the Editor: Joe Biden Should Step Aside

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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…

Biden is Running: Campaign Goes After Project 2025

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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…

A Story Told is A Life Lived

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“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…

The Future is Up to Joe and Jill Biden: What Path Will They Choose?

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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…

The Mood From Camp David is Not Good

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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…

The Question that Will Not Be Asked at the Biden-Trump Debate

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What to do about the electric power demands of artificial intelligence data centers? – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – It’s a lovely summer day in the mountains, and the last thing I want to be doing is thinking about this Biden-Trump rematch presidential debate everyone on news talk and…

Seven Day Heat Wave Grips the Eastern U.S.

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By Glynn Wilson –  THURMONT, Md. – How hot must it get before most doubters are convinced that the planet is warming? How many heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires, massive hurricanes and tornadoes will it take to convince most people that global warming is changing the climate and that humans are responsible? An end to…

Getting By With a Little Help From Our Friends

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Is the sun setting on the web press in America? – By Glynn Wilson – The Big Picture – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – It was never my intention to move to Washington a decade ago to take it by storm to try and fix the federal government or bridge the partisan divide, promises often proclaimed…

Father’s Day from the White House

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — It seems only fitting that my last dateline Washington column is about the White House and falls on Father’s Day. It feels like the end of another era. How many of those milestones may a person experience in a life? In a time when…

Storms Are Coming to Washington: Head for the Hills

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A storm is coming. More than one storm in fact. This might be a good time to plan an escape from staying inside the Beltway in the nation’s capital region, with all the traffic and tension that goes with living in such a place.…

Federal Judge Orders Trump Mouthpiece Steve Bannon to Jail

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge ordered Donald Trump brain trust and mouthpiece Steve Bannon to surrender by July 1 to start serving a four-month prison sentence imposed for contempt of Congress for disobeying a subpoena to provide documents and testimony to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6,…

Trump Guilty Verdict Moves Voters

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By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The worm is beginning to turn, and not in Trump’s favor. For the past six months, news outfits have pushed out story after story claiming former President Donald Trump was ahead of President Joe Biden in the polls in the presidential election of 2024, keeping Trump supporters feeling…

Trump Found Guilty on All 34 Counts in New York Hush Money Trial

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By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald J. Trump was convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal on Thursday by a New York jury, becoming the first former president to be tried and convicted of a felony. The conviction will no doubt reverberate around the country and impact the presidential election…