The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It would be ironic, if not funny, that the end of the American run of prestige and power in the world came crashing to an end because of the idiotic and corrupt actions of a mob boss dictator wannabe who got elected on the slogan “Make America…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – “What could possibly go wrong?” Donald Trump and Elon Musk could learn a thing or two from British animated comedy team Wallace and Gromit. That is if they were the least bit interested in learning, as opposed to destroying education and the concept of human learning in…
Can factual reporting diligently investigated and brilliantly written still make a difference? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A new Red Scare threatens American democracy. This time, it’s not a deranged Senator from Wisconsin making all the noise and ruining lives. It’s the president himself, seemingly serving the interests of the new…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – You know me. It’s not my way to just blow smoke, make shit up and sensationalize the facts with pretension to get attention and traffic. There’s clearly no money in that anyway, in contradiction to what everyone thought about the internet in…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SELMA, Ala. – As fate would have it, no real plan of my own, I’m encamped in an undisclosed location somewhere off the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. On Sunday, the reenactment of that historic march will kick off once again, as it does…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – One of these days I’m going to find my way out of this concentric circle maze that seems to be my life. There has to be a secret door somewhere in the universe. What I need is a worm hole. Let’s just…
EDITOR’S NOTE – This will be my last political editorial column for awhile, as it appears I may be doing some reporting for Alabama Public Radio and maybe even NPR soon. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Well, I hope you are happy now, the half of America that voted…
The Big Picture – By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – Who will write the new American Pie for this tumultuous time in history? Camping for a few days down by the Tennessee River and contemplating our future – or if we even have one – I doubt it will be Taylor Swift…
‘We must all hang together or we will all surely hang separately.’ – Ben Franklin Guest Column – Dr. Timothy D. Snyder – Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University – “What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – “Listen to my story about a man named” … Not Jed, Dick. Not sure exactly why this popped into my head on Sunday morning. Maybe because I’ve been immersed in Southern music for the past few months, hanging out down the street from Nashville, Tennessee in Muscle…
By Glynn Wilson – To whom it may concern at the Freedom of the Press Foundation: You should be aware of the real story behind the Elon Musk-Hacker-Trump invasion of the Treasury Department and Social Security System data. The real story is Trump’s “Enemies List” – which was unconscionable even in Richard Nixon’s corrupt time…
It’s not clear who that might be now that he has the power of the presidency, complete with Supreme Court Immunity, and a guaranteed pardon for any crimes he commits with this massive breach of privacy and imminent threat to national security – By Glynn Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – Well folks, it was…
What about Christian charity? – “You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – (Jan. 2, 2021) – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around Los Angeles, and it’s not even fire season. In Washington,…
“Do not take what I say as if I were merely playing, for you see the subject of our discussion — and on what subject should even a man of slight intelligence be more serious? Namely, what kind of life should one live … the unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Sunday Reader…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – We have only 16 days to go until you know who will be sworn in again in Washington, so time is of the essence. President Joe Biden and his White House staff, along with all the federal agencies, are taking steps to try to prevent the destruction…
“Death comes for us all… And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature, and the will of God.” ― Robert Bolt, “A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts” The Big Picture –…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ARGO, Ala. – You want to know a secret? Sure you do. Everybody wants to know a secret. Knock, knock Who’s there? Santa Clause and me Who’s me? Jesus No room at the Inn A color line even then How lives intertwine. So Santa, I have a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In a retrograde world where finding crumbs to eat might be enough to make the peons and peasants kiss up to the new king/dictator and the pope like they did in Shakespeare’s time, when monarchs ruled the world. But how in this world has it come to…
Game of Riddles No. 9 This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In chapter five of J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, and in the first of the…
