By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — The spring bird migration is in full swing along the Gulf Coast, an annual event when thousands of species of birds make their annual trans-Gulf flight from South and Central America back to North America for the summer and hundreds of birders make it here for one…
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Thousands of bird watchers are flocking to the Alabama Gulf Coast this spring for the annual bird migration, but it’s also mating season for other species, including this fairly large American alligator [Alligator mississippiensis] that has become a tourist attraction in its own right as people come…
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. – The annual spring bird migration is in full swing along the Alabama Gulf Coast, as well as the spring mating season for North American raptors like this osprey [Pandion haliaetus], unique for its diet of live fish and ability to dive into water to catch them. These…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As an educated lawyer, former FBI director James Comey should know the Latin legal phrase, “Fiat justitia ruat caelum,” which means: “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” He apparently forget that under the pressure of the election in 2016 and in trying to serve President…
By Robert Reich – The petulant adolescent in the White House – who has replaced most of the adults around him with raging sycophants and has demoted his chief of staff, John Kelly, to lapdog – lacks adequate supervision. Before, he was merely petty and vindictive. He’d tweet nasty things about people he wanted to…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — As we wait for a massive storm that could dump seven inches of rain here to make it over from New Orleans, this is a good time to talk about the upcoming hurricane season of 2018 and the latest science news about global warming and climate change. Climate…
By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former judge Roy Moore is like a vampire of a perennial politician who won’t stay politically dead. In spite of being rejected by a majority of voters in a U.S. Senate special election in December for a seat held by Republicans for a quarter century, a race he…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â FLORENCE, Ala. — For all practical purposes, the presidency of Donald J. Trump is over. It’s time for someone to inform him that he should resign now before the FBI has to arrest him and escort him from the White House on live national television. This Trump…
Add my name to the top of the list. I say Trump should be arrested and removed from the White House, now. – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – If Donald Trump’s crazy tweets, undignified behavior, unqualified cabinet appointments, disastrous policies and authoritarian bashing of the press has not been…
By Glynn Wilson – Let’s review. There is much hand-wringing in the news of late about how Facebook lost control of all the data it collects on users, how that data was used by Cambridge Analytica to potentially swing the 2016 presidential election away from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, and how Facebook and Google…
By Glynn Wilson – One of the most disheartening facts about the Trump administration’s policies to the millions of Americans who care deeply about the Earth’s natural environment is the outright war on the planet being waged by President Donald Trump and his cabinet. A couple of new stories just out demonstrate the problem, and…
By Glynn Wilson – This may be the most important news you read this week, maybe this month. So you think the exposure of “fake news” in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and all the stories about how Facebook data was compromised and used to manipulate voters was the end of the controversy?…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So we need your help, dear readers, to settle an argument. Would you rather read a factual story? Or a legend that may or may not be all true? Is it OK to tell a white lie now and then to save someone from grief or pain?…
By Robert Reich – America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who combined all these nefarious qualities. America’s great good fortune was to begin with the opposite –…
Staff Report – Former judge and Senate candidate Roy Moore’s attempt to convince a judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against him failed Wednesday when Montgomery County Circuit Judge Roman Ashley Shaul denied his motion to dismiss the case and scheduled a formal court hearing for April 12. Leigh Corfman of Gadsden filed the lawsuit…
By Keven Smith – FaceBook criticism is nothing new. In fact, there’s an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to it, which began, interestingly enough, in 2007 – a mere two years after the company, under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, settled a lawsuit with brothers Cameron, and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra claiming that he had stolen the…
By Robert Reich – What’s worrying isn’t that Trump is now getting advice about policy from fanatics like John Bolton and Lawrence Kudlow. Trump has never cared about policy. The real worry is that – with Robert Mueller breathing down his neck, and several special elections suggesting a giant “blue wave” in November – Trump…
By Patrick Lynch – In spite of restrictions by the Trump administration not to talk about global warming or using the terminology of “climate change,” the scientists and public relations folks at NASA have come up with a way to continue the research and show us the results. NASA research shows that permafrost — permanently frozen…
By Glynn Wilson – Porn star and stripper Stormy Daniels appears to be beating President Donald Trump at his own game, the media manipulation Wrestle Mania game that is. When Trump was interviewed on the CBS News show “60 Minutes” not long after winning the presidential election in November 2016, he quizzed executive producer Jeff…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – I lost a friend on Facebook this week. Not a real friend, mind you. Just a friend on Facebook. The relationship was so short I don’t even remember his name. All I remember is that his profile picture was the logo for the Auburn Tigers football team.…
