I was listening to “The BS Report with Bill Simmons” (which is a redundancy since the “BS” is a word play on his initials) and Chuck Klosterman was on, talking about how bloggers and twitterrers say stuff on the internet and think they’re so important because a few people really like what they have to [...]

This time I think I am up for the challenge of hosting my site by myself.  I have imported all of my posts from all previous iterations of Cows & Graveyards.  I hope you like the new site.

Have people made good use of the similarity in ridiculous formulation between Cap ‘n Trade and Cap’n Crunch?  Yes?  Oh good.  

What think you of the new layout?

This is one of those awkward, personal blog posts.  I have not been blogging regularly for some time.  While my life has been fantastic the last two years, the trajectory of my blogging has, in general, been heading in the other direction.  What has caused the decline?  Several major events.  I have lived in three [...]

As much as the MSM continues to assert their significance on the tough stories, and it is true that the MSM breaks stories, but I do have a sense that they do not seem to stay on top of stories the way that some people in the blogosphere do. One example might be my long-time [...]

Alright, due to the problems I’m having running my own site (I don’t want to get into them), I’m back on wordpress.com. I’m going to import some of my more recent posts from there to here, and then I’m just not going to bother with the old site.  Update your feeds accordingly.  
 
 

  Alex Rodriguez is 6 Home Runs shy of 500, and he is 31 years old.  The current youngest person to 500 home runs is Jimmie Foxx, at 32 years and 337 days old.  Does he make the Barry Bonds issue irrelevant?   I’d love nothing more than to see the Barry Bonds home run issue [...]

I’m preparing Arendt’s “Lying in Politics” for my Democratic Despotism course, and I know what my next post-dissertation writing project is going to be about: Majority Omnipotence, Revolutions, and the global conflict between Democracy and Despotism.  I hearby claim this mental territory for me, but to give you a hint as to what I’m going [...]

I hadn’t read anything off of aldaily lately, and wow, there are some curious articles about.  There’s one about Bono at the G8 summit, here’s the argument:

Bono’s band is overrated
Bono is a self-obsessed pop star
Bono acts like he’s an important world leader for his own ego (I can only assume that Angela Merkel rose to [...]