The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Like the wise man said, there is some good news, and some bad news, and lots of uncertainty. Which would you like to hear first? Even though Saturday will mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, I’ll start…
Connecting the Dots
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Hurricane Ida Moves Ashore in Louisiana
And Other Disasters Facing the Nation and the Planet – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s Déjà vu all over again. Yogi Berra made that phrase famous when he witnessed Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hitting back-to-back home runs in the New York Yankees’ seasons in the early…
There’s Some Good in This World, And it’s Worth Fighting For
Secret Vistas: A River Runs Through It
Originally published July 31, 2005, as an introduction to our web publishing ventures in The Locust Fork News-Journal. Editor’s Note: Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson usually writes a weekly column on Sunday. By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – LOCUST FORK RIVER, Blount County, Ala., July 30 – “I am haunted by waters,” author…
The News Deluge Lurches From One Disaster to Another
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — The drizzling rain has stopped outside the camper van window for now, although more rain from Tropical Storm Fred is on the way to the mid-Atlantic region after making landfall along the Florida panhandle. Fred Hits the Southeast: Possible Tornado Leaves Damage in…
If Hate Trumps Love, and War Trumps Peace, Only Altruism Can Combat Selfishness
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Love versus hate. Peace versus war. Empathy versus apathy. Altruism versus selfishness. These are the fundamental struggles between humans and their evolutionary nature on planet Earth. There’s always lots of talk about love going on, but it never seems to hold the power to conquer hate. In…
Exposing Corruption in the American Press is Critical for the Future of Democracy
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” – Thomas Jefferson By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Thomas Jefferson said that, newspapers were the only means of communicating with citizens about…
Delta Variant Grips Dixie: Capitol Insurrection Investigation Hearings Begin
Delta Variant Takes Out Republicans, as Evidence of Climate Change Competes to Dominate the News
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Proving the adage that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes,” and show that posting false information on the inter-web appears to be far more profitable than telling the truth, consider the case of…
The COVID Games in Tokyo, and the Blame Game for the Dying in Red Alabama
Hey Google, Amazon, Facebook: Is There a God?
Take the Time to Think, Dream and be Happy
“It’s very difficult, in geography as in morality, to understand the world without leaving your own house.” – Voltaire Sunday Reader – A Think Piece – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Do you ever just take some time off to simply think? To dream? Experts in psychology say this is critical not only to…
Bending the Arc of the Moral Universe Towards Justice Takes Vigilance
Wake Up: National Public Sleeping Day is No Excuse for Not Reading This
Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The east-facing window in this humble abode was enshrouded in fog the first thing Sunday morning, not the famous smoke you sometimes see in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Since it’s National Public Sleeping Day and the weather was not conducive to…
A Failure to Communicate: Where Do We Go From Here?
“Anything that gets the adrenalin moving like a 440 volt blast in a copper bathtub is good for the reflexes and keeps the veins free of cholesterol… but too many adrenaline rushes in any given time span has the same effect on the nervous system as too many electro-shock treatments are said to have on…
Mobile River Bridge May Be Dead in the Water
EDITOR’S NOTE – MOBILE, Ala. – It’s simple. Opposition to the toll for a new bridge crossing Mobile Bay is overwhelming, and since the proposal claims the project cannot be completed without the toll money, it is dead in the water. You can read all about it here, and see the mainstream press coverage here…
Understanding the Cult of Personality and Trump: Think George Wallace
A Complete Psychological Analysis of Trump’s Popular Support
Science can help us make sense of the president’s seeming political invincibility – Mind In The Machine – Bobby Azarian Ph.D. – Whether we want to or not, we must try to understand the Donald Trump phenomenon, as it has completely swept the nation and also fiercely divided it. What is most baffling about it…
Democrats Take the House, Trump Wins Everything Else
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Forced to Resign – ELECTION ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – True to form, the first King of America preempted all television programming the day after the midterm elections to make sure everyone’s attention was focused on him, the greatest narcissist whoever lived. Donald Trump could not wait a day for…
Good Looking White Female Scientist Charges Sexual Assault Against Climate Change Denier Donald Trump
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – Satire Meets Academic Research – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was cold and pouring down rain on that day in 1989 or 1990 in Mobile, Alabama, when I wrote my first news story about the greenhouse effect, a phenomenon where carbon dioxide, methane gas, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons combine with…