Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

My presidential bookcase, No Kings Day

Again. Make America Great Again I’ve been exploring this phrase as it has taken over conversations, rallies, bots, blather, mind games, ...

I feel almost giddy as this week spells the end of Trump in the White House and a new president installed. A new day for Washington, D.C., a...

WyoFile is celebrating Free Speech Week by staging an intriguing photo contest for potential lawbreakers. Let's let the WyoFile folks t...

Occupy Wyoming! Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett blew into Cheyenne today to interview some of us involved with Occupy Cheyenne. We kidd...

This Norman Rockwell poster is based on the “Four Freedoms” addressed by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a January 1941 speech. The following...

The Wyoming Country Party has been floating around the state since spring. Its mission looks suspiciously like that of the Wyoming Republic...

Don't let the Know Nothings take away your reading choices. Read any book you want all year 'round. But be especially forceful on...

An amazing documentary. My wife and I saw it on WY Public TV several weeks ago. Donate to Truthout and get a fee copy. 

Marching for the vote in 1971 In 1971, the U.S. Congress ratified the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18. I was five months ...

Congressional Republicans ponder the "Repeal Amendment" while waiting for their meds  O.K.. "looniness" isn't a w...

From the Casper Star-Tribune : All three members of Wyoming’s congressional delegation have signed on as co-sponsors to a proposed constit...

I ran into Tea Party Slim at the downtown Starbucks. “Hey Slim,” I said. “Enjoying that Fair Trade Coffee?” He peered at his grande coff...

The conservative Constitution (Bob Englehart / The Hartford Courant )

Republican Sen. Kit Jennings of Casper on Wyoming Legislature's concealed carry bill: "We kind of drew the line in the sand and sai...

At least three bills targeting the U.S. Affordable Health Care Act are on the Wyoming Legislature's docket. The Legislature gets down t...

So much for our designation as The Equality State. And I'm sure that anti-gay legislation can't be far behind. From Wyoming Public...

In 1,000 words or less... I'm looking out at the high prairie clouds. They drift east, as always, toward Pine Bluffs and Kimball. The ...

From the AP today: The director of a University of Wyoming center that invited a former 1960s radical to campus says he canceled the event b...

Great news for college students (and their parents). Pres. Obama today signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. Here are som...