Take the Pledge of Altruism to Find Happiness – By Glynn Wilson – Elon Musk is living proof that great wealth does not make for great happiness. He’s the richest man in the world, the first trillionaire. Yet a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, set to make its world premiere this week at…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – When you hear in the gossip winds around here about a party featuring a band called Nashville Honeymoon, you might think the Sierra mountain foothills are about to come alive with the sounds of Nashville country music. Especially when you find out…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – When I saw the news that CNN’s creator Ted Turner died the other day, I knew I would soon find time to write about him. He was one of the most iconic figures of our generation, and based in the Capital of…
By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama guitar slinger Wayne Perkins, who’s playing in the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll inspired Southern Rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and influenced British Rock bands like The Rolling Stones, and whose lead guitar licks helped make Bob Marley’s Reggae music internationally famous, died on Monday…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – “I just want to be free … free of all the hurt … all the pain … end those lonely hours … those lonely days, yeah, yeah…” Someone could definitely write those lyrics now and I could relate, as I’m sure many…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As Apple turns 50, I can’t help but think back on the turning point for the company when Steve Jobs came back in 1997, the year I turned 40. I will never forget the ad credited with bringing the company back, complete…
As Well as Theft of Text and Data to Train Artificial Intelligence Bots – Sundar Pichai Alphabet-Google 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 To whom it may concern: Now that a federal judge has ruled you guilty of engaging in monopolistic corporate practices in regards to search and online advertising, we wonder if you…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – One of the main reasons I fled Washington, D.C. last year and traveled to California in the first place was a determination to stop spending so much time paying attention to partisan politics and issues that never seemed to change for the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Five years ago, hunkered down for the winter north of Pensacola, Florida in Donald Trump’s mostly disastrous first term as president and keeping up with the news as Covid-19 spread over the world and across the United States, I embarked on a special research…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – You know it’s the end of an era when a giant passes from the Earth. Bill Moyers, who made it to the Big Time from small town Baptist roots in Texas in the 1950s to the White House in the time of President John…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein believed in the benefits of racial diversity on human evolution and society, fought for sexual freedom in his life in the great 20th century, and worried about the threat posed by corrupt politicians and governments to individual liberty.…
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…
