The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. â What would you do if you knew you had just one week more to live in a place that feels like home, knowing there are more stories to discover and tell? Maybe vow to come back next year and tackle the other stories?…
Connecting the Dots
Happy Birthday: Living Beyond the Curse of 64
The Wizard of Id – Anti-Christ
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – When French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician René Descartes first posited his theory, Cogito, ergo sum, “I think, therefore I am,” he could not have foreseen a Wizard of Id like Donald Trump taking over America and saying just because he thinks documents are declassified, therefore they are…
Goodbye Summer 2022: Hello Midterm Election Fall
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — It’s drizzling rain in the mountain woods, hovering around 72 degrees on this last day of summer. We will transit the autumn equinox about 8 p.m. tonight, and fall will officially begin — with only six weeks to go until the critical midterm…
The Real Killer: The Role of Stress in People’s Lives
How Climate Change Might Wipe Out the Human Population – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For all the bromides and self-help scams flooding the market these days for gullible people seeking the secret to living longer or at least living more healthy lives, I’ve long suspected that the number one killer is…
Never Forget There’s A Critical Election Coming Up Nov. 8
What’s Past May be Prologue, but Sometimes You Have to Charter New Ground
Stay Tuned to See if Trump Will Face the Music, or Not… Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — Down in Washington, D.C. at the National Archives a team of investigators are combing through all the classified documents seized by the FBI in the recent raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Outside the…
What Humanity Needs: A Shared Narrative for the 21st Century
We Think Therefore We Win
On Leaving Alabama and the Future of Humanity and Nature
Webb Telescope Reveals a New Vision of an Ancient Universe – But Will the Images Hold the Power to Change Us?
Steve Bannon Was a Key Architect of Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ Strategy
Trump Supreme Court Dismantles Wall of Separation Between Church and State
There goes democracy … monarchy anyone? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – Donald Trump always said he wanted to “build a wall.” Instead he tore one down, the wall separating church and state. Just like his hero Putin, he pandered to the Christians, and almost became the dictator he always…
Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Power to Fight Global Warming and Climate Change
Is this the fatal blow in law that will doom human life on planet Earth? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Since it is now plainly obvious that the conservative majority on this Supreme Court is packed with biased, politically partisan, “activist judges” who have demonstrated that they feel unbound in their…
Supreme Court Dismantles Liberty, Rights and Freedoms, and Not Just for Women
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For half a century, two Supreme Court cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, protected the liberty and equality of women in the United States of America. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that the Constitution safeguards a woman’s right to decide for…
When Liberty is Truly Threatened, Who Will Actually Stand Up?
Father’s Day 2022 and the 50th Anniversary of Watergate
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – On June 17, 1972, when Nixon’s CREEP burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington looking for psychological dirt on Democrats — 50 years ago Friday — school was out in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. I was only 14 and listening to “School’s Out” by Alice…
Steve Bannon Dares Merrick Garland to Indict Trump: Me Too
Charge Trump With Inciting an Insurrection and Prevent Him From Running Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – After the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection adjourned the prime time hearing Thursday night, the first in a series of hearings that seem destined to end in a call for the first ever…
Americans On the Move: Climate Change and the Great Political Divide Drive Mass Migration
Will Conservative North Carolina Voters Stand by Nazi Sympathizer Madison Cawthorn?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a period in American politics when being openly racist and a German Nazi fascist sympathizer would have automatically disqualified a candidate from being elected to any office in the United States. Some political scientists and historians might give some of the credit…