Connecting the Dots

The Real Killer: The Role of Stress in People’s Lives

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How Climate Change Might Wipe Out the Human Population – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  For all the bromides and self-help scams flooding the market these days for gullible people seeking the secret to living longer or at least living more healthy lives, I’ve long suspected that the number one killer is…

Never Forget There’s A Critical Election Coming Up Nov. 8

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  What’s the point of jumping on the bandwagon and sharing memes on Facebook or even writing a news column on remembering Sept. 11, 2001? Those days are long gone and I say “Never Forget” Jan. 6, 2021. The number one threat of “terrorism” these days does not…

What’s Past May be Prologue, but Sometimes You Have to Charter New Ground

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Stay Tuned to See if Trump Will Face the Music, or Not… Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — Down in Washington, D.C. at the National Archives a team of investigators are combing through all the classified documents seized by the FBI in the recent raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Outside the…

What Humanity Needs: A Shared Narrative for the 21st Century

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What humanity needs is a shared, factual narrative. Not just a myth to live by, as Joseph Campbell articulated in a series of interviews with Bill Moyers on PBS way back in the 20th century. I’ve written about this before, even in my own book. The Power…

We Think Therefore We Win

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Mother Nature doesn’t care what your political opinion is, what side you take in the current partisan political divide in the United States. She is malevolent, and will not even bother to laugh at you on Facebook when you prove to be such a moron that you…

On Leaving Alabama and the Future of Humanity and Nature

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Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – You must know by now that I read a lot. Always have. When I was a kid I went through the school library and left little unread. In the summer months, back when there was a such thing as a book mobile, very little escaped my attention. I…

Webb Telescope Reveals a New Vision of an Ancient Universe – But Will the Images Hold the Power to Change Us?

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For some reason I had a little trouble falling sound asleep on Saturday night. So after watching a couple of shows on Netflix, dozing off a few times and waking back up, I went outside for a few minutes for some fresh air between 1 and 2…

Steve Bannon Was a Key Architect of Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ Strategy

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Why is this such a mystery to other news outlets? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – If ever there was any doubt that “Sloppy” Steve Bannon was a key architect of Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” strategy and that it was developed even before Election Day on November 3, 2020, new sensationalized…

Trump Supreme Court Dismantles Wall of Separation Between Church and State

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There goes democracy … monarchy anyone? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – Donald Trump always said he wanted to “build a wall.” Instead he tore one down, the wall separating church and state. Just like his hero Putin, he pandered to the Christians, and almost became the dictator he always…

Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Power to Fight Global Warming and Climate Change

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Is this the fatal blow in law that will doom human life on planet Earth? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Since it is now plainly obvious that the conservative majority on this Supreme Court is packed with biased, politically partisan, “activist judges” who have demonstrated that they feel unbound in their…

Supreme Court Dismantles Liberty, Rights and Freedoms, and Not Just for Women

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For half a century, two Supreme Court cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, protected the liberty and equality of women in the United States of America. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that the Constitution safeguards a woman’s right to decide for…

When Liberty is Truly Threatened, Who Will Actually Stand Up?

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The biggest threat to the future of humanity, democracy and the inherent rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the muddled thinking of men. Feel free to quote me on that. For example, as I was re-reading the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v.…

Father’s Day 2022 and the 50th Anniversary of Watergate

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – On June 17, 1972, when Nixon’s CREEP burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington looking for psychological dirt on Democrats — 50 years ago Friday — school was out in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. I was only 14 and listening to “School’s Out” by Alice…

Steve Bannon Dares Merrick Garland to Indict Trump: Me Too

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Charge Trump With Inciting an Insurrection and Prevent Him From Running Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – After the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection adjourned the prime time hearing Thursday night, the first in a series of hearings that seem destined to end in a call for the first ever…

Americans On the Move: Climate Change and the Great Political Divide Drive Mass Migration

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – APPALACHIA – People are packing up their tents and RVs in the campground on Sunday to head back home or on down the road, and over coffee here in the woods, I can’t stop thinking about all the ways Americans are on the move these days. Paying…

Will Conservative North Carolina Voters Stand by Nazi Sympathizer Madison Cawthorn?

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a period in American politics when being openly racist and a German Nazi fascist sympathizer would have automatically disqualified a candidate from being elected to any office in the United States. Some political scientists and historians might give some of the credit…

Marjorie Taylor Greene and the 14th Amendment: A Way to End the Civil War

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marjorie Taylor Greene. That’s all you have to say on Facebook to get Democrats fired up to hit like and comment. There must be a political lesson in here somewhere. Democrats appear burned out on politics in general and say they are tired of…

Justice Jackson’s Confirmation to the Supreme Court is a Major Turn in the Arc of History

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If the long arc of history bends towards justice, it just took a major turn this week. If Barack Obama was America’s political Jackie Robinson, the first African American president just as Robinson was the first Black player to make the major leagues in…

War in Ukraine: The Price We’re paying for Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Stance

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Guest Column – By George Zadigian – As our hearts break for the people of Ukraine, it is imperative that we wrap our heads around the fact that this is the price of supporting a president who stridently promoted “America First”. This is the price of supporting a president that cast doubt on American’s commitment…

Project Protect Democracy – Georgia: Raphael Warnock vs. Herschel Walker

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Remember watching the election returns in November, 2020 as Georgia became the one state in the American South to go blue and help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump? The people of Atlanta, of all places, not only helped save democracy from corporate, capitalist fascism.…