By now everyone must know that The Sage Grouse did not file for governor. Neither did the Governor.

But Leslie Petersen did. This now presents our household with a quandary. Do we register as Democrats to help her defeat the assortment of crackpots who filed as Democrats, or do we register as Republicans so we can vote for one, if any, of the GOP candidates who might not continue the race to the bottom of Tea Party rhetoric.

District Judge Arnold issued a short-term temporary restraining order at the request of Laramie County Community College yesterday because someone allegedly purloined a report which contained private student information and gave it to the Cheyenne Eagle.

Hey if they are doing it right out in the open, I shouldn’t feel weird, like voyeuristic, taking pictures of them, right? No reasonable expectation of privacy here, right? Another early morning at the Napier Road lek, a very public place.

Change of subject, briefly. We have buried you in basic chemistry; here is the refresher: adding oxygen to stuff is burning it (oxidation); taking carbon into living systems and using it to store energy, adding hydrogen to it, is reduction. Reduction is storing energy; oxidation is releasing it. Coal seams and

Tea Leaves and Tea Parties
Some of my liberal friends have been privately berating me for writing about Henry Waxman and Nancy Pelosi needing dunce caps.
I watched Henry Waxman woodenly berate the CEO of the California health insurer that– gasp–, raised rates in response to rising medical costs. I came to the conclusion that he is [...]

(Sung to “I Am A Pilgrim”)
I am a sage-grouse
Lonely but determined
Traveling through
This perilous land
I want to nest in
A grassy valley, oh Lord
But I can’t  (doo doo doo doo)
Cuz the cows ate it all up
The cowboys blame it
All on the big oilmen
What I fear is
Those great big raptors
If I can’t hide from
Hawks, trucks and foxes, oh [...]

Nobody loves their dogs more than I do.  I surprised our companions on our honeymoon camping trip when I mentioned firearms in an unpleasant manner to the owner of a large dog which was viciously attacking mine.  I don’t usually give in to temper like that, but I loved that dog as [...]

Why would anyone start a blog like that : “The Pity Party?”
I am certain that all of my Democratic Party friends think I fell off the edge into the right-wing abyss several years ago.
And most of my Republican Party friends are polite and sometimes supportive but they don’t invite me to their fund-raisers.
The [...]

I was showing a rancher from Simms. Montana, around a ranch a partner and I owned for a few years, very nice fellow, likes to irrigate, fix fence and weld stuff because he enjoys the hands-on part of work.  He is educated with a dry wit and his wife is a charming school teacher.  We [...]

Hunting wary ducks, deer and pheasants requires stealth, skill and often a significant commitment of energy which requires physical conditioning.  The chance that many of the prey might get away, coupled with the foregoing, is what many hunters consider to define sportsmanship.  I have bagged many deer and a few antelope, [...]

The latest Auk (Journal of the American Ornithologists Union) arrived recently, Volume 127.  A monograph at 16-22 regards sex ratios of Greater Sage-grouse.
This is interesting:  hunter harvest data shows more females than males are shot by hunters.
The authors of the study report trapped and radio-collared hens and followed their nesting activities.  [...]

What is the function of a horn on an automobile?  (The audible horn, not the Texas longhorns on the hood.)
In China, where many intersections are unmarred by stop signs, yield signs, lights, crosswalk markings; in other words, it’s a free-for-all, horns are used to let other drivers know where you are.
In Thailand, [...]