Cow-o-philes all: I have had to activate Word Verification on TCA Comments owing to a huge overnight spamming of The Cow. I know this impinges somewhat on the spontaneity of the quick quip, but I ask your forbearance; mopping up the puerile drivel of the spammers this morning was, I think, the e-equivalent of hosing down the front porch after finding some drunken louts had pissed all over it during the night.

We now resume normal transmission.