The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So I just sent an email message to The New York Times deputy editor of Culture and Lifestyle, Melissa Kirsch, author of the book “The Girl’s Guide” — not exactly a literary powerhouse. Charged with providing something interesting to read on the soft news…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if it were not embarrassing enough to hang around in the nation’s capital and admit to people that you are originally from Alabama, this bad football coach joke of a United States Senator Tommy Tuberville is running a one man filibuster against the…
“Our government … teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” – Justice Louis Brandeis “The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I don’t know about you, but deep math problems have never seemed so fun to me. They burn too much energy. Energy that could be utilized doing something much more fun, like playing baseball or the drums. Some of the smartest people I know…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So I’ve been flying a little under the radar of late. For some very good reasons, and some not so great. I’ve been burned out on the sensational clickbait traffic arms race, which as I predicted a long time ago was not the holy…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even in losing, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Fox News seem to be winning. Is there anything we can do to turn things around, reverse course and stop the destruction of democracy as we know it, the de-evolution of the human brain and the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There will be a reckoning. But it will not look like what you think. It will not look like Biblical Christian myths about the final judgement day, although in places it will feel like and resemble hell. And the impact will not just fall…
The Big Picture - By Glynn Wilson - WASHINGTON, D.C. — No one is above the law. That includes the President of the United States. Whether you can convict one is another question. But at least America is not a Catholic monarchy, although the Supreme Court looks like one with six out of nine justices…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Can a song change the world? A news story? What about a leak? Daniel Ellsberg, famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers to newspapers in 1971 — an act that rippled through American life for decades in the form of a distrust of government over…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Imagine, if you will, what it would feel like to be a rain soaked soldier (like the ones depicted in “All Quiet on the Western Front”) huddled a muddy trench fighting a stalemated civil war for 40 years. Some days just north of the…
The Day the Newspaper Died – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Please allow me to apologize in advance for some of what I’m about to say. They say the truth hurts, and even psychologists agree looking with hope toward the future is more healthy than dwelling with nostalgia on…
The universe is vast. Why can’t we be humbled by that and work together to save our tiny planet? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes I look out through the magic tube at what’s happening in the world and feel at once like a wise old owl, or…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Declarative statement: You cannot have a non-partisan Department of Justice and a “fair and blindfolded” system of justice if only one side plays by the rules. Sorry to have to be the one to break the news. It’s just a fact. I know it’s…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I told y’all he was coming to Washington in the new year with a political agenda to help feed fake dirt to the Republicans in the House. Sure enough — totally unlike Mr. Smith who came to Washington in another era for a far…
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell’s 1984 QUOTE of the DAY – “The Republicans have brought the QAnon caucus to the Oversight Committee, and you can expect them to run with the most ludicrous conspiracy theories one can ever imagine.†– Freshman Congressman Dan Goldman, Democrat from New York…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On a cold, dreary winter day in the nation’s capital, I’m thinking maybe I’ve finally hit the old man codger wall. When you live for nearly three-quarters of a century, they say, there are some things you don’t recognize about this world anymore; also…
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. – Macbeth after he hears of Lady Macbeth’s death, in Act 5, scene 5, lines 16–27. The…
They Should Be Locked Up Along With Donald Trump – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Confederate rebels who wanted to break up the United States in the 1860s failed in 1864, and similar rebels failed to take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But 21 insurrectionist…
It turns out quite a lot, if people would listen… The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — How can art influence life and make the world a better place? One thing’s for sure. You can’t do it by being oblivious to what’s going on around you. And what can an Irish…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the years roll by and print becomes ever less relevant — and this is supposed to be the year of gratitude — I am more grateful every year that I do not have to crank out more irrelevant and ridiculous news to fill…
