‘If I don’t catch a fish soon, I am going to start cheating’

“Seems I am enduring the horrible life that living in a blue state can portend I’ve noticed that whenever you do an “I love Whyoming” column, you take a cheap shot at other parts of the country, mostly my home state. Why is Whyoming the least populated state? Maybe nobody wants to live there.” — Jim Sniffin, my grumpy little brother, of Cedar Falls, Iowa (which is a wonderful place in which to live, I’ve been told).

My relatives and friends from other states are sick of me continuing to call Wyoming God’s Country. Some of them even call our state “Whyoming” and cannot...