Twitter is the lazy man's blog

You may have noticed that we started "tweeting" lately, by putting up <140 character responses to whatever we're reading and thinking, etc. We admit: we're being lazy. It's summer and we're ready for vacation or inspiration. Or "field work."

Here's our latest field observation: We just saw a truck with this bumper sticker:

COWBOYS RULE. ALLWAYS HAVE, ALLWAYS WILL.

Indeed, in a parallel universe where "always" is spelled with a double "l," they just might. But in this universe of the western United States, "always" is really not more than 130 years. Just because most folks remember a west dominated by land-degrading livestock use does not mean that this hegemony should or will persist. The rules are changing, cowwboyys.