The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – (Jan. 2, 2021) – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around Los Angeles, and it’s not even fire season. In Washington,…
“Do not take what I say as if I were merely playing, for you see the subject of our discussion — and on what subject should even a man of slight intelligence be more serious? Namely, what kind of life should one live … the unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Sunday Reader…
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden delivered his last political speech on Wednesday evening in his last address to the nation from the Oval Office, issuing a dire warning about the state of the country with an “oligarchy” of the ultrawealthy on the verge of taking over and destroying American democracy in a “dangerous…
Jack Smith’s Final Report Justifies the Charges and Dropping the Case Against Trump – By Glynn Wilson – The complete failure of the American justice system to stop Donald Trump from hijacking the United States government with profound and corrupt lies and deceit does not bode well for the future of American democracy and places…
Outline of an Idea Emerges With First Snow of 2025 – “All of a sudden, there was Southern Rock.” – Jimmy Johnson, about the day Wilson Pickett covered the Beatles’ “Hey Jude” with Duane Allman on guitar, 1969. Tales from the MoJo Road – By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – ARGO, Ala. – A rare blanket…
By Daniel Rothberg for ProPublica and Dayvid Figler, City Cast Las Vegas – Elon Musk’s Boring Company spent years pitching cities on a novel solution to traffic, an underground transportation system to whisk passengers through tunnels in electric vehicles. Proposals in Illinois and California fizzled after officials and the public began scrutinizing details of the…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – ARGO, Ala. – Well, I’ve been out walking some, since I don’t do that much talking or partying anymore, these days. Out back there’s an old native trail through the woods they say was the original road from Trussville to Springville. I don’t know about…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – We have only 16 days to go until you know who will be sworn in again in Washington, so time is of the essence. President Joe Biden and his White House staff, along with all the federal agencies, are taking steps to try to prevent the destruction…
Editor’s Note: The sun is shining on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, as we get ready to pass through the vortex of a new calendar year. In our never-ending cycle of life in the Milky Way galaxy, Earth is circling around the Sun and will reach the perihelion – or Earth’s closest pass…
“Death comes for us all… And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature, and the will of God.” ― Robert Bolt, “A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts” The Big Picture –…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – News photography is a dying field just like news itself. That started with the invention and release of the iPhone by Apple in 2006. But at least the New York Times still keeps the tradition alive with news pictures from all over the world. The Year in…
Editor’s Note: The year 2024 could have ended differently, and there could have been hope for democracy delivered by voters in November. Instead, American voters expressed their political preferences for dictatorship over democracy, and the consequences will be profound. By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden powerfully framed the election debate in January as a…
Just No Strict Punishment Recommended for His Alleged Crimes – Staff Report – A House Ethics Committee report accuses former House member Matt Gaetz of Florida, and President-elect Donald Trump’s former pick for attorney general, of paying for sex, possessing illegal drugs and having sexual relations with an underage girl. But you, know, we won’t…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ARGO, Ala. – You want to know a secret? Sure you do. Everybody wants to know a secret. Knock, knock Who’s there? Santa Clause and me Who’s me? Jesus No room at the Inn A color line even then How lives intertwine. So Santa, I have a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In a retrograde world where finding crumbs to eat might be enough to make the peons and peasants kiss up to the new king/dictator and the pope like they did in Shakespeare’s time, when monarchs ruled the world. But how in this world has it come to…
Game of Riddles No. 9 This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In chapter five of J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, and in the first of the…
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who helped lead a Congressional investigation into the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, called President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to imprison her and other members of the select House committee an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations…
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Buried under all the latest news dominating the cable news talk and social media traffic about President-elect Donald Trump’s insane choices of unqualified loyalists to serve in his cabinet, clearly a team designed to destroy the United States government from within, there have been a few…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – If we had only known that ignorance really was bliss, that human stupidity was the ultimate goal in life, that to be “woke” was not just a bad thing but the worst thing a person could strive to be, we could have saved ourselves…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Resistance may be futile. Unless you live in California. Apparently, the phrase “resistance is futile” appeared the first time on TV in a 1967 “Doctor Who” episode called “Tomb of the Cybermen.” In Star Trek’s “First Contact,” the voice of the Borg, spoken by…
