The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. — Are you getting your affairs in order? I know I am. If this is not the end of the world as we know it, I don’t know what else that could go wrong to make it so. Yellowstone could blow and we would…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. – It’s a tough business always being brutally honest. But somebody has to do it, right? Sorry in advance. There’s no funny little ditty to sing you this morning. This is just not funny anymore. As I sit here isolated and alone on the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. — The dots on the coronavirus map and the color representing the Republican Party are not the only bright red things around here right now. In the mountain woods of North Alabama, the pollen count is on “Very High.” So your runny nose, sneezing…
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – — Hunter S. Thompson – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — On the last Saturday afternoon in March, the Pensacola Bay Bridge should be jammed with Spring Break traffic headed to the beach. But Highway 98 was almost without traffic…
A Teachable Moment – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — The news is changing so fast on the health and economic impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic that no matter what I write this minute and this day, it will likely be obsolete by tomorrow. But I do believe strongly…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â PENSACOLA, Fla. — This feels surreal, but reality is beginning to set in. It feels like Murphy’s law is in full effect: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” As the novel coronavirus health pandemic continues to grow, and a global economic recession and maybe a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — The sun was shining and everyone seemed happy and full of fun on Saturday at the Palafox Market even as the first two deaths from coronavirus were reported in the Sunshine state. Talk among progressives at the Polonzo Bistro included jokes that since COVID-19…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The dark cloud threatening democracy around the world is spreading like the evil cloud coming out of Mordor hovered over Middle Earth in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series, and the current occupant of the White House in the United States is a big part…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — The sun was shining and it felt a little like spring was in the air as we pulled out of the Conecuh National Forest this week and crossed over the Alabama state line into Florida. After working on a house in need of renovations…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Driving into the Alabama capital city always feels like a nostalgia trip. It’s impossible to drive down the exit ramp off I-65 on Herron Street, make my way over to Dexter Avenue and head up the hill to the old capitol without having a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – While we wait for the delayed results of the Iowa Caucuses, what the National Affairs Desk of Rolling Stone magazine is calling Dempocalypse Now — and the election reporting glitch caused the New York Times to shut down it’s election results system on the web — the…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â It’s hard to know what the Chinese astrologers were thinking when they came up with the Chinese zodiac, but sometimes their system creates opportunities for word games that also tend to possess political and/or social insight. Take 2020, for example, the Year of the Rat. The Rat…
Sure, if it’s the right woman. But here in Dixie Alley, the frogs think it’s spring already – “The past is not dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, 1951 The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – In a glance at the trending news on…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – Trump has done it now. All our worst fears about how Donald Trump’s ignorance and abuse of power could screw up the country and the world just came true with his ill-conceived decision to order a drone strike Friday at Baghdad International Airport…
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” – Sinclair Lewis The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST — Before I talk about the year and decade in review in this final column of this eventful year of 2019, I would like to…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Tis the season for all things impeachment, so stuff your stockings accordingly. Although don’t forget that Congress is now in recess for the Christmas and New Years holiday. So we will all have to take a break from that news until an agreement can be reached between…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Now here’s a revelation. An evangelical Christian magazine with widespread circulation founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham published an editorial on Thursday calling for President Donald Trump’s removal from office by the Senate or popular vote in 2020. An Associated Press story about it being shared…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – It makes me happy to report that it’s 65 degrees in mid-December here about 1,000 miles from Washington, D.C., proving that our climate change escape travel strategy is working. But even here in the woods along the Alabama-Florida line, it’s hard to escape…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – The contrast could not be greater from where we spent this Thanksgiving and the past five on that noisy Texas Street in Mobile, Alabama, where you can’t see the sky for the city lights and the blinking RSA tower and where it rains…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In any other democratic country where the underlying principle is that we are all about creating “a nation of laws, not men,” any president who committed as many atrocities as Donald J. Trump would have been long gone by now, piled on the trash heap of history…
