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…
Escaping the Tiger Mosquitoes Blown in With Hurricane Ida – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Hurricane Ida blew up from New Orleans, through Nashville and up U.S. Interstate 81 through Virginia and Maryland this week, ultimately plowing through Pennsylvania and drowning people in their basements in New York,…
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…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — It’s 79 degrees here in the campground near Camp David, about a mile as the crow flies, and once again, we are breaking down to head back into the suburbs of Washington, D.C. for the weekend. While disasters strike much of the world,…
Editor’s Note: As a media scholar, I have been writing about this for years. Guest Column – By Robert Reich – The mainstream media has historically tried to balance left and right in its political coverage, and present what it views as a reasonable center. That may sound good in theory. But the old politics…
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 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…
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…
“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…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – We’ve become so inured to Donald Trump’s proto-fascism that we barely blink an eye when we learn that he tried to manipulate the 2020 election. Yet the most recent revelation should frighten every American to their core. Last Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some say the world will end in fire. Maybe they are right. Whether you cling to Biblical prophesy or believe the science of global warming and climate change, much of the world does seem to be on fire these days, and it seems to…
It didn’t have to be this way. – Oh Alabama, New Orleans and Little Rock too It didn’t have to be this way When a free shot would do. YouTube: Neil Young – Alabama The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s 72 degrees in the city Trump called a swamp.…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – Despair is worse after a brief period of hope. I don’t know about you, but I was elated earlier this spring when it seemed as if Trump and COVID were gone, and Biden seemed surprisingly able to get the nation rapidly back on track. Now much is sliding…
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 Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If ever there was a use for Twitter, other than Donald Trump’s tweets, it is the COVID Games in Tokyo. I almost feel sorry for NBC, but not really, since it is so easy to ignore the NBC Olympics Twitter feed along with The…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – Within hours, Jeff Bezos will blast off into space, a week after Richard Branson went up. Another small step for billionaires. Once upon a time, long long ago, people with names like John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Buzz Aldrin, and Sally Ride blasted into space. None was selected on…
“I do not feel obligated to believe that the same god who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.” – Galileo Galilei Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In April of 1966, Time magazine set off a firestorm of public debate and made a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes epiphanies come in dreams. I had another one of those this morning as my brain was trying to coax my body into waking up. Not that I haven’t realized this before, and defied the knowledge. The scene was set in New Orleans, and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As people in the United States get ready to find some way to celebrate the Fourth of July again after a reopening of sorts from last year’s shut down in the hellscape year of 2020, I can’t help but find myself wondering: Has American…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Murder mysteries have never really been my thing. Back in the days prior to personal computers and the internet when reading popular books, my reading tended more to the international political thrillers of Robert Ludlum than the mysteries of Agatha Christie. Of course I…
