Is this the fatal blow in law that will doom human life on planet Earth? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Since it is now plainly obvious that the conservative majority on this Supreme Court is packed with biased, politically partisan, “activist judges” who have demonstrated that they feel unbound in their…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For half a century, two Supreme Court cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, protected the liberty and equality of women in the United States of America. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that the Constitution safeguards a woman’s right to decide for…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The biggest threat to the future of humanity, democracy and the inherent rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the muddled thinking of men. Feel free to quote me on that. For example, as I was re-reading the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – On June 17, 1972, when Nixon’s CREEP burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington looking for psychological dirt on Democrats — 50 years ago Friday — school was out in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. I was only 14 and listening to “School’s Out” by Alice…
Charge Trump With Inciting an Insurrection and Prevent Him From Running Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – After the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection adjourned the prime time hearing Thursday night, the first in a series of hearings that seem destined to end in a call for the first ever…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – APPALACHIA – People are packing up their tents and RVs in the campground on Sunday to head back home or on down the road, and over coffee here in the woods, I can’t stop thinking about all the ways Americans are on the move these days. Paying…
The latest public opinion on gun control, white nationalism and the future of democracy – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Here’s a novel theory: What if people at least tried to be nicer? Boring, I know. And of course it won’t work, because so many people are, let’s face it, basically dumbasses…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — On this rainy day in Maryland when I won’t be traveling to Churchill Downs, donning a sear sucker suit or even watching the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby on television — or drinking mint juleps with Mitch McConnell for that matter —…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a period in American politics when being openly racist and a German Nazi fascist sympathizer would have automatically disqualified a candidate from being elected to any office in the United States. Some political scientists and historians might give some of the credit…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Everyone, it seems, is up in arms about Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter. With the possible exception of all those stockholders who are about to make a fortune when he has to buy them out to take the company private. And there’s the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marjorie Taylor Greene. That’s all you have to say on Facebook to get Democrats fired up to hit like and comment. There must be a political lesson in here somewhere. Democrats appear burned out on politics in general and say they are tired of…
Endeaver to Persevere – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From humble beginnings in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, where I was not even expected to live after my premature birth in a Southside hospital, I’ve climbed and clawed my way out of what seemed destined to be a mundane…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If the long arc of history bends towards justice, it just took a major turn this week. If Barack Obama was America’s political Jackie Robinson, the first African American president just as Robinson was the first Black player to make the major leagues in…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Remember watching the election returns in November, 2020 as Georgia became the one state in the American South to go blue and help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump? The people of Atlanta, of all places, not only helped save democracy from corporate, capitalist fascism.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are lots of people who deserve to be slapped these days. Maybe not so much Chris Rock on television at the Academy Awards. As a recent Photoshopped meme going around on Facebook depicts, Vladimir Putin deserves to be slapped by Volodymyr Zelensky for…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oh so long ago, in a land far, far away, there arose an ideal of a government by the people where a thing called justice could actually exist, blind and fair. Some people, especially politicians, still try to cling to this fantasy. It’s a…
Senate Sherpa Doug Jones Says He’s Confident of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — At 11:33 a.m. Sunday, we cross the vernal equinox from winter into spring, and it feels like it’s about time, y’all. The Japanese cherry blossoms are blooming along the Tidal…
Thoughts On Life and Social Media During a Snow ‘Bomb Cyclone’ – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thick, wet white snow covers the ground again. The wind out of the northwest continues to howl outside, causing the RV to shake a little sometimes. The tall pine and hardwood trees…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ladies and gentleman, it’s with mixed feelings of terrible sadness and great glee that we report to you today there was at least one clear case of voter fraud in the 2020 election. This is rich. Break out the popcorn. You will be shocked…
Coronavirus Originated in Wuhan Market – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes you might see news outlets playing catchup with each other on an important story by citing another news outfit. We all feel a responsibility to provide our unique collection of readers, our audience, with certain information. Even…
