The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So I’m sipping the second cup of coffee Tuesday morning, watching the sun come up over the Smokies, scouring the web looking for an expert to quote, when it finally dawns on me like an epiphany: I must be the nation’s top expert on the press and…
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Alabama Scientist Mark Hainds Publishes Book as First to Hike Mexican Border
By Glynn Wilson – Like many a fellow traveler before him inspired by the American landscape, Missouri country boy turned middle-aged Alabama forester Mark J. Hainds grew impatient with his life of teaching, raising a family, and conducting research to conserve and propagate the return of the longleaf pine forest in the South, long ago…
Oliver Stone Warns Against Surveillance Capitalism and ‘Pokémon Go’
EDITORS NOTE – I knew there was something fishy about this Pokemon game. – By Jordan Riefe – Controversy and Oliver Stone have never been strange bedfellows. He courted it with movies like âJFK,â âNixonâ and âNatural Born Killers,â and last week, he made headlines in the unlikely milieu of Comic-Con, where he spoke about…
Two Old Stories Resurface: I Must Weigh In on Bush AWOL
Selma the Film: Clearing Up the Controversies
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — If you are really any kind of patriotic American — Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, libertarian, whatever — you must be willing to acknowledge that what happened in Alabama and Washington in 1965 was a pivotal moment in U.S. and world history. By “pivotal” I do not…
Today Feels Like ‘The Day After Tomorrow’
How to Educate Concerned Citizens to Actually Form a More Perfect Union
Competitive Capitalism is the Answer, Not Socialism – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – If the film Reds is even close to an accurate historical portrayal of the relationship between Louise Bryant and Jack Reed, then there is a lesson here we can all use to plan the next phase of American democracy…