By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration, led by Elon’s Musk’s DOGE team of hackers and aided by complicit Republicans in Congress, is engaged in a war on science like nothing anyone has ever seen in American history. The administration is threatening to cut the federal budget for the National Aeronautics and…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s a different kind of spring here in and around the great capital city of the United States. Yes, the Japanese cherry trees blossomed this year by the Jefferson Memorial and around the Tidal Basin, along with the redbuds, dogwoods and mountain…
He’s still mad about the Inauguration crowd size photos showing Obama’s crowd much larger – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Still furious with the National Park Service for releasing photos showing his inauguration crowd size to be half the crowd who showed up in 2009 for President Barack Obama’s inauguration, President Donald Trump…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rather than changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, if Trump is allowed to continue transforming this country as he has tried to do in his first 100 days back in the White House, we might as well…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PELL CITY, Ala. – By the time Donald J. Trump flies into Tuscaloosa on Thursday, May 1 for a private, ticketed event for himself in Coleman Coliseum on the eve of University of Alabama graduation ceremonies beginning on May 2, I will be long gone from Alabama…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It is a sad time for Planet Earth, maybe the saddest of times since the first Earth Day 55 years ago today. By the 20th anniversary in 1990, after news organizations developed specialty beats to cover “pollution” of the natural environment in the United States and around…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHILDERSBURG, Ala. – If you find yourself traveling in Alabama looking for a hidden place to camp that is not too crowded, maybe on a fast moving stream where you can float in a canoe or kayak with lots of wildlife to see, you might…
On My Return to Washington One More Time – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. BOUND – This little detour back to the American South for the past six months has been interesting, to say the least, presenting some fascinating opportunities I never envisioned. Covering politics and the disastrous 2024 election…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHEROKEE ROCK VILLAGE, Ala. – If the conservative Republicans on Fox News, talk radio and social media are just going to go on and on calling liberal Democrats “libs” and talk endlessly about “sticking it to the libs” while Donald Trump and Elon Musk go…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHEROKEE ROCK VILLAGE, Ala. – Always on the lookout for cool, historic and scenic places to camp these days, on a recent trip scouting new places in Alabama I ran across this gem in Cherokee County not far from Gadsden and Noccalula Falls. Cherokee Rock…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – PELL CITY, Ala. – We’re going through Blackberry Winter here this week and it’s not a bad thing, especially if you are camping out. Last week the afternoon high temperature reached the upper 80s, with the low at night only dropping to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – LOGAN MARTIN LAKE, Ala. – A friend sent out an email on Sunday with a link to a story in the liberal news site Truthout out of Berkeley, California. The headline? AI Isn’t Going to Cut Government Bureaucracy — It’s Going to Vastly Worsen It The subhead:…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MONTEVALLO, Ala. – It’s raining hard now in the campground as I work on the first cup of coffee on Sunday morning. We could lose power or internet at any moment. But I am going to try to write a little something before it goes…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden had a thing for wanting to compete with China in the 21st century. He talked about it all the time. Sometimes he seemed to go a little overboard with this, especially when talking about “winning” a space weapons race and war with China. The…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It would be ironic, if not funny, if the end of the American run of prestige and power in the world came crashing to an end because of the idiotic and corrupt actions of a mob boss dictator wannabe who got elected on the slogan “Make America…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – “What could possibly go wrong?” Donald Trump and Elon Musk could learn a thing or two from British animated comedy team Wallace and Gromit. That is if they were the least bit interested in learning, as opposed to destroying education and the concept of human learning in…
Can factual reporting diligently investigated and brilliantly written still make a difference? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A new Red Scare threatens American democracy. This time, it’s not a deranged Senator from Wisconsin making all the noise and ruining lives. It’s the president himself, seemingly serving the interests of the new…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – You know me. It’s not my way to just blow smoke, make shit up and sensationalize the facts with pretension to get attention and traffic. There’s clearly no money in that anyway, in contradiction to what everyone thought about the internet in…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SELMA, Ala. – As fate would have it, no real plan of my own, I’m encamped in an undisclosed location somewhere off the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. On Sunday, the reenactment of that historic march will kick off once again, as it does…
ON THE RADIO – APR, NPR – “Bloody Sunday” through the lens of Spider Martin By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As people get ready to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts just…
