perfidy

This made me giggle. I think I might have crossed over into tittering.

Don't think I don't have my misgivings about sending some hotshot Asian Studies minor into space for the first time. This is NASA, not Grinnell. I don't have the time or patience for your renegade attitude and macho bravado. I can't believe the fate of mankind rests on some roughneck bachelor of the arts. I know your type. You feed off the thrill of inference and small, instructor-led discussion. You think you're some kind of invincible God just because you have cursory understandings of Buddhism, classical literature, and introductory linguistics. Well listen up, cowboy. You make one false move up there, be it a clumsy thesis statement, poorly reasoned argument, or glib analysis, and your team is dead, along with this whole sorry planet.

It is a good and gracious God that created a world where there is a McSweeny's Internet Tendency. Hat tip to Isegoria, who I've been reading lately with great enjoyment and much edification. I happened across him by way of Aretae, who I linked a while back on the climate issue. I owe him a debt of thanks for saving me the trouble of writing an overlong climate post. And by way of them, I started reading Foseti, who is moderately local to me. Here's a few interesting posts from all of them - here, here, here and here.

And an apology, while I'm at it. I've written my next post twice. And then rewritten it again. I don't know exactly why I am procrastinating on actually clicking the publish button, but I am. I'm going to crap out that post no matter how much it hurts. And then, a guest blogger. Stay tuned.