Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I began to write this Word Back column as Memorial Day weekend began. I was making fun of what America has become in 2025 but forgot about w...

A week later and so much has changed. Chris was laid off from her job at the YMCA. The place is closed except for childcare for essential ...

I'm not a Florida beach guy. Not anymore. Salt water once ran in my veins. The sun freckled my skin on a daily basis. All summer long,...

We ran into the whale watchers at the beach today. An elderly couple about my age, already retired, on the beat to record the right whales l...

Hesperornis regalis , also known as "western bird." This flightless bird reached six feet long and roamed Wyoming's inland...

Interesting front page article in today's Halloween edition of the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle . Local gallery owner Harvey Deselms is promo...

The "Hell Pig" (a.k.a. Archaeotherium ) display at the Tate Geological Museum at Casper College. I was attending "A Conversa...

The new 20,000-square-foot Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in Montana includes sculptures of T-Rex skeletons, murals of ancient mountain...

This photo by John Scalzi is great in so many ways. It's from Kentucky's Creation Museum, and shows a boy riding a statue of a baby ...

Molly K. Hooper writing today in The Hill: Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

Republicans in the West (including Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso ) continue to play "That Darn Gubment" game. This comes from a 6/26/...

This comes from the WyoDems: It looks like Representative Cynthia Lummis is taking her role as a member of the ‘Party of No’ seriously. In f...

Kossack Jake McIntyre over at Daily Kos needs your help naming the cuddly new logo for the Republican Party (above). The beast is half tradi...

From Gary Trauner's U.S. House campaign : ENERGY PRESS STATEMENT 8/26/08 FROM GARY TRAUNER Since the day I started running for Wyoming...

Man, that's one big check Wyoming taxpayers just wrote to BIG OIL. Kate (at left) helpfully displays the check for Cheyenne motorists w...

A Rally for Clean Energy, sponsored by moveon.org, will take place on the corner of 17th St. and Central Ave. in downtown Cheyenne at 5 p.m....

Cowboy hats and ballcaps outnumber yarmulkes as the headgear of choice in Cheyenne. Wyoming's Jewish population probably falls somewhere...

Can four supposedly serious candidates for Wyoming’s lone U.S. House seat gather to talk about the nation’s economic troubles and not once m...

John McCain and I were in Denver today. Not in the same place at the same time. He was at the downtown Hyatt, addressing the American G.I. F...

In this Denver Post photo, an unsuspecting Denverite screams in horror when confronted by a McCainosaurus at today's town hall meeting....