A "WYOMING" SMORGASBOARD

When you lack the skills displayed by the many more sophisticated and erudite nationally published political bloggers, it's important to find your topics where you may.

I admit that my political expertise is a little shaky and I'm glad the elections are over. 

Sometimes - you just try to make lemonade (or my wife's delicious lemon squares) out of lemons. I enjoy the opportunity to just be silly and laugh at some of  the non-election related stories that have occupied my time lately.

Let's take on some developments from around the country and start with that which happened recently in the alleged "State" of Wyoming.

It is my belief that years ago the surrounding States -  Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Colorado, could not reach agreement on the ownership of the unnamed land mass that kept them apart.

In desperation, they decided to give the territory a name just so it didn't look stupid sitting out there all by itself. The one they chose was "Wyoming" - which I learned in the Comanche language means "irrelevant."

I continue to contend that if you are hoping to spot "The State of Wyoming" when travelling cross-country - your odds of being successful are about as good as an Astronaut locating Heaven during one of their missions.

When was the last time you heard somebody talking about "The Great State Of Wyoming"?

Anyway, the newspapers decided to go along with this farce. Apparently it's become a great source of wildlife stories. Take the recent  authentic press releases about "Wyoming" which I saw recently in the USA Today.

Here's the first one:

Jackson:."Six grizzly bear deaths are being investigated as human-caused."

That would be, of course, as opposed to those deaths resulting from "troubled and misunderstood bears" who resorted to hemlock in order to reach their happy hunting ground.

Another "Wyoming" story:

"A fisherman from Douglas broke the state record  for biggest gizzard shad. Jeff **** caught the fish while jigging with an artificial lure."

That's impressive. One would suspect with all that jumping around in the boat you were bound to scare off the gizzards.

Not being a fisherman I assume an "artifical lure" is something like a blown up doll?

"Hey - -  you go Jeff!"

Finally,

"The Bureau of land Management is rounding up hundreds of wild horses in Fremont County to inject the mares with birth control shots."

Don't know about you but I'm guessing the previous birth control strategy failed after the IUD's kept falling out when the mares attempted to evade those uncouth horny stallions.

Hey, we all have our troubles. One of mine is dealing with an aging body.
It's scary when you start making the same noises as your coffee maker.

P.S.: to Tom & Carol: I'll bet it cost you a fortune to have that phony "Wyoming" postcard printed up.)