The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — There appears to be no profound quotations of wisdom from the past or memes to share that accurately capture the present moment. Or maybe Google is just too polluted with commercial crap for me to find it. I would sue the ba, ba, bastaads…
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With a Little Help From Our Friends, There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel of 2020
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The sky is clearing over the Great Smoky Mountains here Saturday morning, making way for a brilliant sunrise, and the dark clouds shrouding American democracy are beginning to blow aside to offer a glimmer of light at the end of the tumultuous tunnel of…
A Fleeting Glimpse of Life Before and After COVID and Trump
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — For a few minutes on Saturday night life in America seemed almost normal. The red, white, blue and yes orange Christmas lights blinked on and off downtown in this World’s Fair university town. The drinks flowed. Gumbo was served. And a live jazz band…
Thanksgiving 2020: Goodbye Donald Trump
Should Trump Be Arrested, Tried and Jailed for His High Crimes? Or Allowed to Walk Away as an Ex-President?
It’s A Mystery: Why Would 71.6 Million Americans Vote for Donald Trump?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The votes are still being tallied in Arizona and North Carolina, and there will be a recount in Georgia. Joe Biden has surpassed 76.3 million votes, the highest vote total in American history. Electoral College Map But that’s not the big mystery of this…
It’s All Over But the Shoutin’ – The Trump Reality Show is Canceled With 74 Million Votes
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For nearly four long years, America has endured Donald Trump’s deceit. On a daily basis, he has lied in OUR White House, on Twitter and television, at times surrounded by MAGA cap wearing white fans in football stadiums. From the day he first came…
As We Wait for a Winner, A Flashback to Florida and the Year 2000
A Massive Landslide Awaits Trump on Tuesday, Nov. 3: Lock Up the Militias
We Can End the Civil War Once and For All Time on Tuesday, Nov. 3
America’s Long National Nightmare May Soon Be Over: Trump Hints of Leaving the Country When He Loses
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It won’t be so long now. The excruciating wait will be over in a few days. Exacerbated by the stress, anxiety and existential dread of the coronavirus pandemic and economic uncertainty, it will all be over soon one way or another. We should know…
So Life Comes Down to This: A Trump Supreme Court Justice Who Doesn’t Even Believe in Democracy
Trump Is Going Down and We Will Dance on His Grave
Murphy’s Law: What Else Could Go Wrong in the Year of Converging Crises?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As the clock ticks down in the final quarter of 2020, the year of the “converging crisis” as some experts are now calling it, for millions of people survival feels like a daily ordeal either physically, economically or psychologically. Of course I’m human. I feel it all…
Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?
The Great Gatsby: You Can’t Repeat the Past
Donald Trump, His Followers and These Times Through the Lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How many of you have read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and watched one or more versions of the movie adaptations of the story? This…
If Steve Bannon Wants a War, I Say We Give Him One
The Supreme Court is Now at Stake Too in the Monumental Election of 2020
The End of the World As We Know It: Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The view of Mount Mitchell is obscured by rain clouds and fog on this Saturday afternoon in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ken Burns is talking about Hank Williams as “the epitome of country music” on “Live From Here” on National Public Radio out of Ashville, North Carolina.…
Can a World Awash in Cognitive Dissonance Survive?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Anxiety and stress in people trying to resolve inconsistent thoughts has been around since the dawn of time. In the throes of a global pandemic and economic uncertainty with confusing mixed signals coming from officials on high is sending the psychological problem soaring. Our world is now…