perfidy

As I occasionally (read: obsessively) check technorati, I notice when we get blogrolled. The Ministry gets founding blogroll honors on the new blog, Thoughts, Ideas and Wildfires. We are humbled, grateful and mildly abashed at our good fortune. Only a few posts over there as yet, but one that sparked my interest especially. (Well, aside from the Kreepy Karr Kid Killer story, which, except for this parenthetical remark, I plan not to mention ever) Unlike most blog memes, this is relatively inoccuous and does not encourage me to create a blogponzi to feed the ego of the fuckwit who originally had some low wattage brainwave and decided to share with a few thousand of his friends. But anyway, the deal here is, grab that book that is nearest to hand turn to page 123, find the fifth sentence on that page and post it and the next two on your blog. So, here is what I found:

When those who have a purpose for being outdoors encounter those who are outdoors because of how earthy the Earth is, some conflict of interest ensues. Witness the strained relations between loggers and owl enthusiasts or between K. D. Lang and pot roast. At the very least the lover of shrubbery will get kidded.

From PJ O'Rourke's wonderful travelogue, All the Trouble in the World.