Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Here is what I have pledged and held close to my heart all my life: The Scout Oath: "On my honor, I will do my best to do my du...

Update 4/10/25: "Hands Off" was the official term for the April 5 protests. Sorry I forgot to mention it. Perfect label for a resp...

Satirist P.J. O'Rourke passed away this week. His humor writing, especially during the National Lampoon era, influenced my writing. Nat...

Received a nice letter from President Joe Biden. It really was an e-mail in letter format with the White House logo as a header and Joe Bide...

I was a bit shocked to find out that the Saturday Evening Post was still alive and celebrating its 200th anniversary. I know the Post from m...

Just 16 days to the most important election of my time.  My voting timeline stretches back to 1972 -- 48 years. In 1972 in Boston, I cast my...

I’ve read several articles about the typical Trump supporter’s frame of mind. As is the case with us Trumpbusters (We ain’t 'fraid of no...

We live in absurd times. A Reality TV show star is president. He is a narcissist who is never wrong about anything but is wrong about everyt...

Our legislature gathers for a short special session tomorrow to decide how to divvy up the federal pandemic stimulus funds. I’d vote to give...

Did U.S. Army General and Supreme Allied Commander of Operation Overlord (and later president) Dwight D. Eisenhower ever go ever go to a Boy...

Remember Hopalong Cassidy on 1950s black-and-white TV? Remember Hopalong Cassidy's Creed? Hopalong was in the news this week, A pres...

From an Oct. 31 article by Michelle Nijhuis on Slate Online about the "Carbon Sink" brouhaha at the University of Wyoming (the c...

It took a few days for the Exxon-Mobil oil pipeline spill to show up in mainstream media. But Montana bloggers were on the story from the ...

On Friday, the Cowboy State Free Press ran a piece about the response of the Wyoming Democratic Party to some of Sen. Enzi's scarifying...

Benjamin Cossel from Pine Bluffs served in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004-2005. Now he's in a VoteVets ad blasting the short-sighted poli...

Dr. Brent Sherard, the state's chief medical officer, spoke last night about another big issue that I forgot to mention. Before the foru...

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Laramie's Nancy Sindelar featured this in her excellent e-letter: On Sunday Sept 13, Mad As Hell Doctors will be speaking to promote un...

Pauline Bartolone sent this: I just came across your blog, hummingbirdminds, and I saw that you have been posting about health care reform. ...