Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

  Courtesy the Denver Public Library by way of a librarian/propagandist/writer  from Wyoming. The downtown DPL was the first library my pare...

It's an "age" thing. In September 2016, just weeks before Trump's election, writer Chris Ladd in Forbes foretold the f...

I first saw "Birth of a Nation" in a college film class 43 years ago. I had some electives to burn in my pursuit of a degree in En...

A Thomas Nast cartoon in Harper's Weekly depicts ape-like Irishmen beating up police on St. Patrick's Day 1867.   Great read fr...

Nobody in the Trump administration asked me for help, but I am offering it anyway. First of all, a bit of history about typographical erro...

This story originally ran on AlterNet and was reposted on Salon Nov. 1: This January, as the Iowa Caucuses were underway, Menards began ...

Tea Party Slim couldn't wait to hear what I learned at Netroots Nation. He was pounding on my door five minutes after I returned from...

I suffered through 10 cloying minutes of "Boomer$" (note the annoying dollar sign) on CNBC before Tom Brokaw broke in with a paean...

The South shall rise again! People who paid attention in history class know that the original Freedom Riders were advocates for Civil Right...

The blogosphere and twitternet are abuzz with news about Dick Cheney's book deal. In Wyoming, any news about the Cheneys is buzzworth...

He's happy for all the reasons you might expect -- and some you could only imagine. Major happiness reigns in the wingnutosphere now tha...

Gather 'round kids, and let me tell you a story about the old days of the Cold War, a war so cold that it almost froze us with fear. We ...

Steelmaggie13 in Alabama is one of those Steel Magnolias who give the South a good name. Here’s part of her diary on Daily Kos: Soooo... Ton...

If Iraq’s such a fine place, why aren’t either of your sons over there? That’s my question for Wyoming’s lone rep in the U.S. House, Barbara...

Here's the message I attached to the petition urging advertisers to reconsider money spent on the FOX New Channel's The O'Reilly...