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.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – If only the Arab King of the Jews who was never really a king, Herod Antipas, had built a border wall around Jerusalem with the help of the Romans, we might not be celebrating Christmas at all. What a different, glorious world it would be. If only…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – If you don’t like a reality show on television you can change the channel. The problem with the reality show starring Donald Trump as president of the United States is that it dominates all the channels. There’s no turning it off, unless you just turn off the…
Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin at Russia-U.S. Summit in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018: Shutterstock By Glynn Wilson – Let’s be clear. Donald J. Trump is a traitor and a crook. He should be indicted, arrested and removed from the White House immediately. Trump is clearly guilty of criminal conduct for colluding with Russia…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â Here’s the blessing and the curse of writing a memoir: It requires reliving your life all over again, at least in your head. Sometimes this can be great fun, at least when you are recounting an enjoyable experience and time in your life. Sometimes it can be…
So too did the press, the media, the intelligence community and Democrats – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Facebook fucked up. So too did the entire traditional press and broadcast news media in America. So did the CIA, the NSA and the FBI. Democrats screwed up too. The Republicans and the Russians just…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Forced to Resign – ELECTION ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – True to form, the first King of America preempted all television programming the day after the midterm elections to make sure everyone’s attention was focused on him, the greatest narcissist whoever lived. Donald Trump could not wait a day for…
But just maybe it could get more people to swallow the medicine – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ALABAMA – What do you get when you crush sugar cane and boil the juice? Molasses, of course. The thick, brown syrup still used in the American South for baking pies, cookies and other…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — By some miracle we swerved along on the mountain backroads south of Washington, D.C. and dodged the pipe bombs and bullets, making it back to the Gulf Coast this week to find fall weather in the air with highs in the ’70s and lows…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOUNT MITCHELL, N.C. — Literary history is filled with stories about motivated people climbing up mountains for inspiration. Moses supposedly hiked up Mount Sinai and came back with the Ten Commandments. George Mallory told the New York Times in 1923 that he climbed Mount Everest “because it’s…
The Unites States of America Won: The Confederates Lost – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – So it appears we will end this trip about where we started it, talking about the damn Civil War, one more freaking time. Historians say history runs in cycles and often repeats itself. I…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – Satire Meets Academic Research – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was cold and pouring down rain on that day in 1989 or 1990 in Mobile, Alabama, when I wrote my first news story about the greenhouse effect, a phenomenon where carbon dioxide, methane gas, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons combine with…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – “So now what?” asks the New York Times editorial board in an unsigned editorial under the headline: The High Court Brought Low: Don’t let Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh have the last word about American justice. “Having first sickened the White House and then…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s a beautiful day in the campground on the last day of September. As the calendar turns to October overnight, we are looking at a high of 73 and a low of 60 with a low humidity of 55 percent. It’s camping weather. In…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From heat wave to flooding rain, the weather in the nation’s capital does not seem normal. But of course it’s not. We are in the new era of climate change now. Not that they believe it in the White House or on one side…
