The Big Picture

Roll Over Ed Murrow: Make Way for Fox News Two on CBS

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___ If you support truth in reporting with no paywall, and fearless writing with no popup ads or sponsored content, consider making a contribution today with GoFundMe or Patreon or PayPal. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Roll over Beethoven. Tell Tchaikovsky the news. Roll over Ed Murrow. Tell Walter…

Where Trump Belongs in Dante’s Hell

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___ If you support truth in reporting with no paywall, and fearless writing with no popup ads or sponsored content, consider making a contribution today with GoFundMe or Patreon or PayPal. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just for the fun of it on Sunday morning, rather than watching or…

The Days When America Screwed Up and Went to Hell

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___ If you support truth in reporting with no paywall, and fearless writing with no popup ads or sponsored content, consider making a contribution today with GoFundMe or Patreon or PayPal. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It could be the after effects of the Benadryl, or the simmering summer…

How Did the World Get So Fucked Up?

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – How did the world get so fucked up? Related question: How did humans become so stupid? I hate to be the one to wax nostalgic about the great past. Resisting that sentimentality has defined my existence. Until now. Not that I want to write…

Frederick Douglass and Me On the U.S. Fourth of July

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“O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…

What Will the Mad King Fuck Up Next?

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – What will the mad king fuck up next? This is not my idea of fun. You? For many years I was not only a political news junkie, like many of my friends, fans and followers on social media and the web. I reveled in…

How to Engender Trust in an Era of Mass Fraud and Fakery

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Without going into all the details or naming names at this juncture, let’s just say for the sake of argument that some recent experiences demonstrate how we live in an era of massive fraud and fakery. For some good reasons, many people have come…

What A Nightmare: Rescuing Wolves and Rockets Red Glare

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s four in the morning and I just woke up with a start after an intense session of REM sleep. The dreams were realistic and in vivid color. I was hiking with a friend somewhere out West when some idiots who should not have…

How to Succeed at Failing

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Everyone is failing every day at everything. Is that a bad thing? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It seems to me there is a central conundrum facing American society these days, and it involves the two-tiered society we have allowed to develop basically to serve capitalism. Not just…

Who Could Have Predicted a Fascist America

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” –  George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Could it be that the 20th century was the last, great century for humanity? It’s looking more like it every day. The older I get, and…

A Different Kind of Spring in Washington

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s a different kind of spring here in and around the great capital city of the United States. Yes, the Japanese cherry trees blossomed this year by the Jefferson Memorial and around the Tidal Basin, along with the redbuds, dogwoods and mountain…