A Review of Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ Editor’s Note: This column first ran in The Locust Fork News-Journal on October 17, 2009. It also ran on the Alternet website in San Francisco at the time, as well as other news sites and blogs in those days. The subject recently came up in conversation…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Man, this is all we need. A new right-wing sensational tabloid newspaper and news website (no paywall) owned by Rupert Murdoch in California. According to reporting from The New York Times on Thursday, the California Post just launched from Los Angeles, with…
Editor’s Note: We don’t review that many movies here, only the ones we think hold historical and/or literary significance. This week, we found two interesting movies on streaming services to talk about, “Papa: Hemingway in Cuba” and “This Property Is Condemned,” starring Robert Redford and Natalie Wood. Movie Night – By Glynn Wilson – Maybe…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Why do some people, even many experts, fear the coming Artificial Intelligence Revolution? While some people, even some whose professions are at risk, seem ho hum about it? For eons of time, but mainly in the past 250 years, humans invented new…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Let me be perfectly clear. Artificial Intelligence is being funded by Wall Street and designed to replace us all. It will consume all our clean water, over burden the power grid to the point of collapse, and instead of providing solutions to…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Majorities of Americans continue to support charitable causes, according to a recent Gallup Poll, although not so much religious groups. More than three-quarters of American adults surveyed, 76 percent, report that they gave money to a nonprofit organization in the past year, and 63 percent said they…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – This just goes to show you that, in these crazy, mixed up times, even a bad movie can inform and entertain. These days at night, like everybody else, I scroll through the mostly bad movies and shows on streaming services trying to…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As the sun rises over the Sierra mountain ridge with a clear blue sky as a backdrop, 2,797 miles west of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. on this MLK national holiday, I woke up thinking about were I…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – If people knew how much value grabbing and holding their attention held for media outlets, social media platforms, corporate advertisers and politicians of all stripes, would it make a difference in how people spend their time and money? Maybe. Maybe not. But at least…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – At least the sun is shining in the new year in the great state of California, even as dark clouds still block the sun on democracy in Washington, D.C. on this fifth infamous anniversary of Trump’s insurrection to overthrow the United States government on…
We begin 2026 by documenting Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions and crimes – By Glynn Wilson – Tales From the MoJo Road – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – As the year 2025 came to an ignominious close, a few friends were having drinks while the view of the fireworks out the front apartment window was obscured by…
By Glynn Wilson – Tales From the MoJo Road – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – We were somewhere around Sunnyvale headed north at high speed on 101 in the Forest Green Gwyneth Ford, a media camper van, when the sun finally burned through the fog, just in time to reveal the view of South Bay. The…
Multiple Intersections Blocked for Hours – Another Black Eye for Google – Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Nothing says Silicon Valley like Google’s Waymo robotaxis, the newest, greatest form of transportation invented since the electric streetcar in 1892, the year my grandmother was born. It served…
“Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” – Sam Elliott as The Stranger in “The Big Lebowski.” Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – Sometimes in this crazy, mixed up world, the written word can make all the difference. Yet sometimes, no matter…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – From the Golden Gate Bridge crossing San Francisco Bay to Apple’s iconic round “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino near San Jose, there lies an ideal place in the universe that embodies the American Dream in the 21st century. Driving north from San…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – So on the eve of my trip to San Francisco to meet some of the human bots whose technology controls so much of our lives now, I awoke at 5 a.m. with an existential question that has been hounding my thoughts of…
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?” – Don Quixote Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Mark Twain was already on my mind Tuesday morning when the news came across the email wire that one of our great science writers died. In the account of…
It Could Cost the Republicans in the Midterms – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – It’s beginning to look a lot like a sad Christmas indeed, especially for Democrats with SNAP benefits and Obamacare and Republicans who want to get reelected next year. Grinch in chief Donald Trump and his…
You said a road trip would do us some good Despite every instinct I said that I would It’s been six years since you put on that ring Maybe the road will fix everything When all that remains is the gas in the tank The tread on the tires and what’s left in the bank…
By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As international travel and tourism has dropped significantly in the United States over the past year due to Trump administration trade and other unpopular policies, the administration just announced a major hike in fees for foreign travelers at America’s most visited National Parks that could cause another economic…
