The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – You know, there was a time in this country when being openly batshit crazy and totally full of shit was something you at least tried to hide, especially if you harbored ambitions of holding public office. Not anymore. American politics, at least on the Republican side, really…
“Anything that gets the adrenalin moving like a 440 volt blast in a copper bathtub is good for the reflexes and keeps the veins free of cholesterol… but too many adrenaline rushes in any given time span has the same effect on the nervous system as too many electro-shock treatments are said to have on…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The news has been churning for a solid a week and a half since 8,000 marauding militiamen and bleary-eyed neo-Nazi thugs marched from the National Mall to the Capitol steps and somehow, with a little help from Republicans and their racist friends in the Capitol Police, actually…
Hate Breeds Hate – Violence Breeds Violence- “Violence never brings permanent peace.” – MLK The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s tragic that Joe Biden cannot say what I’m about to say. Even if he did, at least a third of “the people” would not listen. They won’t listen to me either. But…
Democrats Projected to Win Both U.S. Senate Campaigns in Georgia – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — My eyes eased open just before sunrise this morning to that pre-sunrise orange glow coming up over the smoky mountains in view from the upstairs window facing east toward the peaks. You know,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – We made it. It may seem like a miracle. But in the clear morning light of day on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, the passing of the new year from 2020 to 2021 may seem a bit anti-climactic, especially if you wake up with a hang over. The…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As the sun comes up over the smokies, reflecting the first morning light off a thick layer of Christmas white snow covering the ground and the trees, it’s amazing how quiet it can be in a city. As much as we love remote mountain…
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…
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…
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…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, N.C. — To all the people out there alone on this Thanksgiving holiday (and even those who are not alone or don’t celebrate) it must be said that we all have one big thing to be thankful for this year in the winter of our…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, N.C. — So if you are like many of my vocal Facebook friends, fans and followers, you may be chomping at the bit to see Donald Trump frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs or a straight-jacket and hauled off to a padded or…
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…
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…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CAMP DAVID, Md. — Just before the results from Pennsylvania were updated Friday morning, I was sipping coffee in the Maryland campground getting ready to head back into the city and found myself in a bit of a flashback to the year 2000. When the election between…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — These are the last words I will write and publish before the election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, and I have to be brutally honest. There will be no pretense or posturing here. I could turn out to be wrong, but I don’t think so.…
Or we can keep fighting it for another four years – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The election of 2020 is one week away and I’m driving up Highway 15 toward Gettysburg thinking about the Civil War we still seem to be fighting 155 years after the bloody war…
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…
This Will Not Stand – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since October 15, 1957, I’ve been fortunate to live on this amazing planet Earth as a citizen of the great country of the United States of America. When I first came out kicking and screaming in that little hospital…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All over the district and beyond, there is a growing fantasy in the land among Democrats that Donald Trump is not only going to lose the 2020 election in a massive landslide, but that when he tries to cling to power anyway, he is…
