The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — If I had the power to change the national debate away from Trump’s distracting tweets, this is what I would have us all talking about. In recent years, with all the climate change related coverage of impacts from global warming, including massive hurricanes and…
By Glynn Wilson – CUNNINGHAM FALLS BY CAMP DAVID, Md. — In an extraordinary revelation set to change the subject of the news away from President Donald Trump’s sharpie scandal over changing the track map for Hurricane Dorian to show a threat to Alabama, the president revealed Saturday that he had been planning a secret…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you have an interest in the national seat of power in this broken American democracy, as I do, your path will take you here to the nation’s capital. There’s lots to see and do here. If you also have an interest in saving…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the nation’s capital in reprieve this weekend from the summer heat waves, heat domes and thunderstorms pounding in from the southwest, what locals like to think of as a harbinger of fall, turning away from the news it might be easy to forget…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s hot as hell could be inside the Beltway again, with a projected high on Sunday of 96 degrees and a low of only 75 tonight, a harbinger of the future for cities along the Eastern Seaboard. As I hit the button to publish this…
By Phil Rockstroh – The U.S. is less of a nation than a collective, psychotic episode. Within day to day life in the nation, a cultural aura exists that shifts, mingles, and merges between a sense of nervous agitation and displaced rage, in combination with a sense of weightlessness. The fragmented quality of daily life…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – Is it possible the promotion of a false political myth that democracy and capitalism are one and the same, and a layman’s view of Social Darwinism as a good thing, has spawned a nation of psychopaths and elected a Psychopath-in-Chief? According to experts, the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — They say if you listen close enough at night by the creeks in these parts, you can still hear the cries of some of the ghosts of the 51,000 soldiers who bled and died here in the effort to save or break up the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. – Imagine this: What if, back in the 1960s, you could have been reading John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley: In Search of America in daily bytes on a website and found out when he posted something new with a social media platform like Facebook? Would…
“The Revolution had come and passed, And Young America, gathered about, Received his tales with many a doubt…” – George P. Webster, Legend of Rip Van Winkle Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — The heat pressed down over Washington and came with a suffocating invisible cloud of ozone, making it hard…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Remember the other day when I said it’s not the destination, or the journey, but what you learn from it? Picture this. A Cherokee and a Polack from Alabama and a redneck Jew from Maryland are standing in an alleyway in a suburban neighborhood.…
By David Underhill – “Equal pay! Equal pay!” the crowd chanted at the rally for the women’s soccer team after the ticker tape World Cup victory parade in New York. They were loud and insistent — and they didn’t mean it. Team captain Megan Rapinoe confirmed this in her speech during the rally. She didn’t…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Here’s what you get when you combine the wisdom of Aristotle and Henry David Thoreau. You’ve heard the idiom, “nature abhors a vacuum,” right? So what does that mean, how does it apply to the current state of our democracy, and why am I…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Everyone should be familiar with the apocryphal phrase, often turned into a cliché by winners on television reality shows or sporting events and sometimes attributed to being popularized by American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson: On life, he allegedly said, “It’s not the destination, it’s…
“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us,…
Unfortunately, that probably won’t happen – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s Sunday in the campground just 13 miles north of the White House and summer is right around the corner after a few glorious spring days just over the District of Columbia line in Maryland. We had a…
Friend, friend Here you come again Empty handed like A pauper in the cold You found, my friend That lonely road again Where the world has left Your wounded soul I have said I will be with you till the end But sometimes the weight Is more than I can hold Forgiveness comes But not…
By David Underhill – Bread and circuses pacified the Roman masses while the emperors with their legions patrolled far borders to pacify barbarians who resisted joining the empire. Joe Biden updated this governing method at his presidential campaign launch rally in Philadelphia. He offered a buffet of appetizing items to improve America’s education, infrastructure, health…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The ghosts of Jefferson Davis and George Wallace must live in the old capitol building in Montgomery. How else to explain why the fundamentalist Christian Republicans who somehow control all three branches of the state government still in the most retrograde state in the Union managed to…
Guest Column – By Deanna Kell – In case you’ve been living in a news bubble and didn’t hear about it already, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the most restrictive abortion bill in the country on Wednesday, a near-total ban on all abortions, after the so-called the State of the Human Life Protection…
