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
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
Letter to the Editor: Joe Biden Should Step Aside
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
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…
Report Shows Climate Change Impacting People’s Health and the Environment
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
Conservative Supreme Court Rules Trump Has Some Immunity from Prosecution for Jan. 6
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 Future is Up to Joe and Jill Biden: What Path Will They Choose?
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
The Question that Will Not Be Asked at the Biden-Trump Debate
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.
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
Father’s Day from the White House
The Big Picture: Back When Artists, Photographers and Writers Helped Sway Public Opinion to Create National Parks
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a time in American history when artists, writers and photographers were held in such high esteem that the best of the best were recruited by the federal government to showcase some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country to help convince…
Storms Are Coming to Washington: Head for the Hills
Federal Judge Orders Trump Mouthpiece Steve Bannon to Jail
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
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
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…
Supreme Court Justice Alito Refuses to Recuse For Display of Controversial Flags
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Predictably and with righteous arrogance, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. declined to recuse himself on Wednesday from two cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after reports that flags displayed outside his houses appeared to support Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement to…