The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Editor’s Note: Sometimes you just have to stop staring at the dancing monkey. That’s what Trump is – a dancing monkey. It’s not because he’s dumb or stupid. He’s not nearly as dumb or stupid as Democrats seem to think. According to some academic research, Trump is…
SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – In the absence of inside anonymous sources to inform press reporting on President Donald J. Trump’s private telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Mueller report, the media is left with no choice but to report what Trump and Putin say — knowing full well they…
America Leads the World in An Ongoing Anxiety Epidemic – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s a perfectly lovely, sunny day along the Gulf Coast, hovering around 70 degrees as I write this, and the thing to do is to sit outside on the back deck and enjoy a Sunday breakfast, and…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – Here we are on Easter weekend, a time of year when the power of myth at its height in our society. Many good Christian capitalists will attend church services this Sunday even though they rarely darken the door of a so-called house of god at any other…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Everybody who is anybody knows by now that Donald Trump is a liar, a cheat and a bad president. Even the Republicans who are afraid of Trump and his friends in the Russian Mob know this, even if they won’t admit it in public. The 200 million…
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971 Fear and Loathing – By Glynn Wilson – Sorry straight news fans. I woke up in the middle of an acid flashback this morning and there’s nothing I can do but tell the story. The…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Let’s be clear. Mueller punted. Mueller failed. Scream all you want to the high heavens for the release of the full Mueller report. It won’t matter. We know the key findings. I’ve been biting my lip, so to speak, for days, weeks and months, refusing to engage…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It’s the last day of winter on Wednesday, March 20, and the blue sky is finally visible here after months of foggy, rainy weather and overcast skies. Mobile has taken over from Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon as the rainiest city in America. I’m…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Is it time, or past time, to add the president of the United States to the terrorism watch list? According to an op-ed posted on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Watch website: The atrocity in New Zealand shows us, once again, that we’re dealing with an…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – While the bloggers in Birmingham think they are having a field day on Twitter by making fun of Donald Watkins, the lawyer and businessman convicted for defrauding investors in federal court this week, it seems more like a cautionary tale of a favorite son who got greedy…
The Foggy Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The sun is shining and the air is cool and dry today along the Gulf Coast, so it may seem strange or funny to read about fog. But I have been thinking about this piece for days, when this port city was so enshrouded…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The news broke as I was working on a piece calling former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe an American hero and President Donald J. Trump a traitor. It was a story fit for a Lynyrd Skynyrd song, “The Ballad of Goodloe Sutton.” He’s the publisher of a…
SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – Another Sunday morning, another disjointed show on Face the Nation, with moderator and CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan misframing the issues in the never ending pretense of mainstream media to be “fair and balanced” and appeal to Democrat and Republican viewers and please corporate advertisers.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So much for hope that the mainstream media and the Democrats are going to save us from Trump. They have been Zucked again. As I was working on my weekly column on Super Bowl Sunday, I knew something was not quite right with the world. It’s a…
SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – Many journalists and pundits have been scrambling for the past two years to try to understand the mass popularity of TV reality star Donald Trump and how he somehow managed to fool enough of the people into voting for him for president in 2016. We know a little…
From inside the White House – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – “We will take America without firing a shot….” It’s almost too bad that there’s no truth to the long-held rumor that Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev used some form of this quote while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the…
Experts say the nation’s cybersecurity could be deeply impacted with federal government workers on furlough and private contractors going without pay. SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson — Celebrity President Donald J. Trump the propaganda master and magician is using his slight of hand again to command all the attention of the national news media…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s unclear if impeaching the mother fucker is the right way to go at the moment for Democrats in the House. But somehow, someway, Trump must go. Share this: #TrumpMustResignNow The damage he has already done to the country and American democracy is so great that we…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It has truly been the Year of the Dog, according to the Chinese Zodiac calendar, a year characterized by “Action,” especially if you are a Twitter follower. You may be suffering from an overdose of adrenaline and dopamine. You might want to take a break during the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GULF SHORES, Ala. — It’s 65 degrees and sunny as I stand on a bridge looking south over the Gulf of Mexico with only seven days to go before Christmas. An acid flashback is not necessary for me to see a vision of the future from here.…
