Also, Facebook Finally Peaked and Meta Lost $230 Billion in Value – “So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people – greedy, barbarous, and cruel…” — T.E. Lawrence in ‘Lawrence of Arabia‘ 1962 The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C.…
“Winners and losers, which one will you be today?” — Social Distortion Winners and Losers Video The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The California punk rock band Social Distortion summed it up in this song by Michael Ness. “We’re all good and evil … there’s cowards and heroes … lovers…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — What would you be thinking if you woke up in the woods at dawn, with the ground covered in white snow, the world all quiet and the air clean and clear? It reminds me of a blank slate, a chance for a new beginning.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If our democracy is so under threat, Covid is still surging, workers and the economy are still suffering, climate change due to global warming is all around us and we’re about to be at war with Russia, why are these talking heads on TeeVee…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I’ve got to write this fast. So listen up. A massive winter storm named Izzy is on the way from the west, or really swirling in from the southwest. When did they start naming winter storms like hurricanes? Anyway it will hit this afternoon…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 6, 2022) — Not long after the sun came up on Jan. 6, 2021, while we got ready to watch Congress affirm the Electoral College results showing Joe Biden the winner in the presidential election of 2020, we found out that two Democrats had…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – We have exclusive, breaking news to report on the Eve of Christmas Eve. Inside sources with Santa’s elves tasked with reading letters to St. Nick and compiling the results for the jolly old man at the North Pole say the number one wish from…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If Donald Trump and his so-called “conservative” Republican followers — especially police officers and members of the military — really want to do away with any semblance of American democracy and install a white nationalist dictatorship here in the United States, I really wish…
Do not go gentle into that good night – Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning…
What’s Wrong With This Picture? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In this continuing fantasyland of two realities we find ourselves living in these days in the United States of America, no controversy sheds more light on the absurdity of it all than the battle to keep the government…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – So I woke up Sunday morning as I often do, listening to the show “On Being” on NPR. While spirituality is the subject of the show, it is a far cry from all the noisy preachers on radio and television pushing their denominational brand…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – No one should aspire to being in a state of infamy. Yet it seems human beings have a genetic predisposition to end up there whether they plan it or not. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl…
“When you are finished changing, you are finished.” – Benjamin Franklin The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – I must not be finished, because I feel a change coming on, a change in the way I feel about America’s national holidays. For most of my adult life, I tended to feel…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahh, did you have a nice break curled up on the couch watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on NBC? Or did you spend too much time arguing with relatives about politics while stuffing your face and drinking too much? For me, it was…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Break out the turkey and dressing and don’t forget the cranberry sauce. Get the football game up on the big flat screen HD TV, with the sound bar pumping out the crowd noise and pithy commentary. It’s officially the 400th anniversary of America’s first…
Release The Kraken, Kamala Harris – “The best defense is a good offense.” — Glynn Wilson The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The morning broke clear and cold on Monday after some light rain overnight, and the late fall wind was whipping in the 10 to 20 mph range in…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Up before the sun on Halloween 2021, viewing the world through a computer screen hooked up to the internet and a big TV connected to a broadcast antenna, we can see clearly what’s going on here and all over the world, even in Glasgow,…
The Scary Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s the season for scary things, and nowhere are things more scary for democracy and the planet than here in the nation’s capital. In case you missed it because the Facebook news feed algorithm is hiding it from you, or none of your friends…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you could catch a ride in a time machine what time and place would you pick? Time and place weigh heavy on my mind this weekend as I make my 64th annual ride around the sun on this beautiful blue planet, as mixed…
