Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Spectrum News in Tampa featured this header the other day: Stetson Law School Alumni say no to school donations after Bondi congressional ...

As I read Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927,” I realized that our history is comprised of an amazing number of knuckleheads and heroes...

President Biden signed the "Jackie Robinson Ballpark National Commemorative Act" on Saturday. It designates Daytona Beach's 11...

Reading a Dennis Lehane novel is no walk in the park. It is if your park is filled with intrigue, betrayal, revenge, murder, drug overdoses,...

It’s mid-April and we’re experiencing our usual schizoid mix of warm days in the 70s interrupted by bursts of snow and cold. Humans are conf...

From today's article in the Business Insider piece about a Miami Herald op-ed about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his "Christ...

It was a cringe-worthy headline above the fold in Saturday's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle :  Air Force base leaders speak out against COMMUNITY...

A viral plague kills thousands and forces millions to hunker down at home and practice social distancing when out in public. Black America...

"Did you say that President Trump wrote a book?" The questions came from a middle-aged African-American staffer in the Martin Lu...

This Cheyenne conference addresses the very timely topic of racism in the U.S.  From a press release: Nate Breen, LCSD1 board membe...

"I don't feel safe here." This isn't a Baltimorian, besieged in his (Trump's words) "disgusting rat and rodent ...

The Nazis are in D.C. this weekend. Sounds weird, doesn't it -- Nazis in our nation's capital city? Last time we contemplated Nazi...

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

Columbia University's Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) wants to find out what white and partially-wh...

Black History Month holds special meaning to me this year. I am reading up on black history during World War I and immediately thereaft...

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

Neo-Nazis support President Trump. President Trump supports the neo-Nazis. We know that now. Whatever you choose to call them -- neo-Naz...

The history teacher from Texas won the $100,000 Teachers' Challenge on Jeopardy last week. He clinched the championship because he knew ...

September 5 Took a trip to Nancy, had a dandy time. Bought a few things, came home in an ambulance. A date at night, a Calvary officer.  ...