“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…
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Attorney General Merrick Garland Should Bring the Hammer of Justice Down on Trump — Or Step Aside and Let Biden Appoint Someone Who Will
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…
Liz Cheney Was Right – Attorney General Merrick Garland Punted
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Liz Cheney was right. Cheney Says Trump Faces ‘Multiple’ Criminal Referrals, and Hints the Justice Department Should Not Wait Merrick Garland didn’t listen. Pressure Mounts on Justice Department to Bring Charges Against Trump Now we are stuck with Trump for two more years, with…
If Hate Trumps Love, and War Trumps Peace, Only Altruism Can Combat Selfishness
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Love versus hate. Peace versus war. Empathy versus apathy. Altruism versus selfishness. These are the fundamental struggles between humans and their evolutionary nature on planet Earth. There’s always lots of talk about love going on, but it never seems to hold the power to conquer hate. In…
It’s Up to the Coronavirus Generation to ‘Set the World on a Different Path’
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, N.C. – In all my travels, with the exception of Yellowstone, this view looking west toward Mount Mitchell is the best spot I’ve found. In some ways, however, it inspires sitting in a comfortable camp chair, staring off into space and doing nothing. But…
It’s Not the Time for Selfish Competition Within Groups
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…
Why Can’t We Solve Problems? Because of the People Who Like to Break Things
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — You don’t have to travel to some high mountain pass to find insight in this mixed up world. But maybe it helps. It seemed to help Moses, George Mallory and Elisha Mitchell, as I’ve written in the past. Climbing Mountains For Inspiration: What’s…
The Dumbest Doomsday Idea Ever: Zuckerberg Reportedly Building an Underground Bunker in Hawaii
Fighting the Civil War One More Time: Will 2024 be the Last Stand of the White Christian Nationalists?
Rupert Murdoch of Fox News Steps Down: Will the Rightward Tilt of America Continue or Peak in 2024?
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,…
Government Declares Covid National Emergency Over: But Is It?
How has your life been changed by this global pandemic? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It feels like a scary movie of a lifetime has passed in the past three years since March, 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic national emergency was declared in the United States. While the…
Lessons Learned About Violence, Chaos and the Need to Tell the Truth from the Coen Brothers’ ‘Fargo’
Ask an Expert: Why Does Life Have to be This Hard?
Missing Secret Service Texts Could Reveal a Coup Plot to Remove Vice President Mike Pence to a ‘Secure Location’
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – Imagine how damaging it would be for the national security of the United States, for public confidence in American institutions, not to mention how embarrassing for the Secret Service, if text messages emerged revealing a plan by agents loyal to “Mogul,” the agency code name…
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…
Camping in the Eastern United States: Planning for Human Survival Here
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Abandoning the cities and suburbs for a camper van or other type of Recreational Vehicle in nature is becoming a reality for hundreds of thousands of people, and not just because of the coronavirus pandemic, the changing climate and economy and the movie Nomadland. It doesn’t have to…
New CIA Report Says We’re All Going to Die: Unless We Save Democracy
Take the Time to Think, Dream and be Happy
“It’s very difficult, in geography as in morality, to understand the world without leaving your own house.” – Voltaire Sunday Reader – A Think Piece – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Do you ever just take some time off to simply think? To dream? Experts in psychology say this is critical not only to…