By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the House Republicans get ready to launch a partisan, political investigation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice, many Democrats and liberal commentators also find themselves wondering what in the hell is going on with Attorney General Merrick Garland. When Garland…
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Lessons Learned About Violence, Chaos and the Need to Tell the Truth from the Coen Brothers’ ‘Fargo’
When the News Gets Weird, the Conspiracy Nuts Turn Pro
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the news gets weird, the conspiracy nuts turn pro. It was Twosday, 2-22-22, at 2:22 p.m., 22 hours ago according to Facebook, when…
Part III: How to Create a Functioning Communications System to Save Democracy and the Planet
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three part series on how to create a functioning communications system to save democracy and the planet. We face an existential crisis in this world and no one seems to know what to do about it. We are just beginning to explore solutions while others seem willing…
Can Altruism Trump Selfishness to Save Democracy and Planet Earth?
Part II: How Existential Anxiety Leads to Authoritarianism – Case Studies: Donald Trump and George Wallace By Glynn Wilson – Introduction Donald Trump has fired all the scientists in the White House. He’s made working conditions in the federal agencies so intolerable that many smart, educated people have simply quit. That seems to be by…
Bernie Sanders and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
“The necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads of Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel; for not till we have secured these are we prepared to entertain the true problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden The Big…
Sol Invictus: Don’t Be Blinded by the ‘Unconquered Sun’
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…
An Election Message for Democrats and Independent Voters: The Fate of the World May Be In Your Hands
EDITOR’S NOTE: Democrats and independents: Listen up! The fate of the country and the world are in your hands. Before I go off on a stream of consciousness rant here many average IQ Americans will never understand, I need to say this one thing everyone should be able to get. It doesn’t take much abstract…
Alien Archeologists Find Dead Humans Staring at Selfies
America Has Fallen and Can’t Get Up
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again. â Humpty Dumpty – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – America has fallen and it canât get up. Unfortunately there is no âlife alertâ button hanging around…
Trump Campaign Heads Toward America’s Destruction Like ‘Huuuge’ Ship Aimed For Melting Glacier
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A friend of mine woke up Sunday morning, stretched and conveyed a nightmare scenario. He said he dreamed there was a “Huuuge” tanker ship headed for America like the Titanic loaded with tar sands crude headed toward a giant, melting glacier shaped like America. On the front…
Fighting the Civil War One More Time: Will 2024 be the Last Stand of the White Christian Nationalists?
The Future of Humanity on Planet Earth
Superorganism: Toward a New Social Contract for Our Endangered Species – Published online by Cambridge University Press – June 23, 2023 – Editor’s Note: As I’ve been writing for many years, the future of humanity on planet Earth is in jeopardy and there is no guarantee we will survive for much longer. Like many naysayers,…
Is There a Divine Providence That Can Save Us From Our Own Selfish Destruction?
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” ― Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From the very beginning of this…
A Day of Reckoning is Coming
Doom is Not Destined or Inevitable: Slap Yourself, Wake Up, Get to Work
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…
In State of the Union Address, Biden Focuses on Standing up to Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Controlling the Pandemic, Strengthening the Economy and Fighting Climate Change
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden stood before Congress Tuesday night and aside from a few stumbled words, delivered a commanding performance calling on all Americans, from all parties, every member of Congress, to stand up to Russia on behalf of Ukraine, to get onboard with his plan to fix the economy,…
Another Big Chance to Slay the Elephant in the GOP Room: Codger Power
One Year After Jan. 6, 2021: If Democracy is to Survive, Trump Must Be Tried and Convicted for Insurrection
E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology and Scientific Studies of Ants and Human Behavior, Dies at 92
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If ever there lived a scientist who came closest to figuring out the essence of human nature and what we need to do to survive on planet Earth, it was Edward Osborne Wilson from Birmingham, Alabama, who reached the zenith of the biological sciences at Harvard and provided…