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The Ministry is pleased to announce that we have acquired the talents of GeekLethal as Special Roving Correspondent for Matters Concerning GeekLethal. He comes to us from his own semi-defunct weblog, and will soon become puissant in the arts of minion-beating, backstabbery, interrogative dentistry, and pixie-baiting.

The Ministry leaves it to GeekLethal to write his own introduction beyond this pittance.We congratulate GeekLethal, and welcome him, his talents, and the sweat of his legions to the cause. Excelsior!

At the suggestion of Buckethead Sr., a respected and credentialed historian, the Ministry is changing the name of the horseshit category. While the Ministry appreciated the sophomoric potty humor tone of the previous category moniker, it was felt that the new name would give the category, and by extension the entire website, an air of erudition and sly humor. If it should not have this effect, the world will mourn the passing of an eminent historian.

The Ministry sends its heartfelt condolences to the fans of the Chicago and Boston areas. While under ordinary circumstances the Ministry would stay true to its idiom of stoic and callous, even merciless disregard for the feelings of others, when the Ministry witnessed the sign held by a typically arrogant Yankees fan at the end of yesterdays game which read, (if the Ministry recalls correctly) "Which curse is worse?" and had crudely drawn depictions of the logos for both the Cubs and Red Sox teams; the Ministry was forced to take sides.

Feeling the pain of two heartbroken bloggers in Chicago, the Ministry has added them to the blogroll. They are The Spoons Experience and Pejmanesque.

The Ministry has reached a milestone! Through the tireless and, indeed, tiresome efforts of its lackies, the Ministry has, as of this date, reached its one thousandth post. Though it has often been arduous going, our unbending will and willingness to sacrifice others for the common good have seen us through. The Ministry would like to thank its loyal, nay, obsequious band of readers for their careful attention to our humble efforts. The Ministry also hurls obloquy, hate, and derision at all those who have failed to recognize the clear signs of greatness that we have deigned to reveal on these pages.

After strenuous interrogation, summary executions, and several six-hour-long mandatory marketing meetings, the HTML gnomes who labor in the stygian depths below the Ministry compound were forced to admit that they had made a dreadful and embarrassing error. That despite having received no instructions to do so, they had utterly and completely failed to adapt the new Perfidy logo to the Perfidy category, as should have been obvious to even your average retarded Ohioan. Behold, the new Perfidy category icon:

This painful mistake is now behind us. A new team of HTML pixies has taken over supervision of the smoking industrial edifice that is the Ministry web server, devotedly feeding it sacrifices of blood and toil to keep it churning away, pounding and shaping the code into the beautiful form you see before you.

[wik] That is now the old Ministry logo, the new one is this:

The Ministry would like to thank, if not actually compensate, the thousands of young children in various third world hell holes that have labored so hard and so well to create the new perfidy gear. The Ministry would also like to commend John Karapelou for his foresightful and compassionate concern for his pets, that resulted in the wondrous Perfidy Logo now available on a variety of consumer goods. 

By clicking here or on the "Perfidious Store Thingy" link to my right, you will be instantly transported to a luscious garden of glorious capitalism. Here you may peruse the garments hand crafted by the nimble fingers of Latin American youths. Here you will see toys manufactured by Chinese criminals paying their debt to soceity. Here you find wonders made possible by your humble servant, the Ministry of Minor Perfidy. 

Shop, and buy. We insist. 

[wik] The future Ministry is considering setting up a new merch emporium. If this should come to pass, you'll see a link in the sidebar menu.

Attentive readers will have noted that immediately to my right is a brand new perfidy logo. This stunning piece of artwork was created by John Karapelou, who is an award winning and stupendously compentent Bio-Medical Illustrator. The Ministry was forced to use ...persuasion... to convince John of the importance of the project, and to point out the consequences of failing to act with generosity and goodwill towards the Ministry. Happily, John recognized the need for a new Ministry logo, and his pets are as a result unharmed.

Lest you think the Ministry composed of unfeeling, nekulturny brutes, the unknowing contributors of our previous logo, the 1108th US Army Signal Brigade are given a plug here. They truly do set the standard.

The Ministry, in its relentless quest to improve no matter the price in blood or suffering, has developed another new category, and a new icon for an old one.

This icon, we felt captured the essence of the Horseshit category far better than any sophomoric fecal imagery, and so the old one was liquidated: [Update] this has been altered to reflect the new category name.

Click the webtastic punditry expander link below for more information on the categories.

For your edification, here is how the Ministry uses, and abuses, the categories:

The following categories may seem similar, but here are the guidelines for their use:

[wik] The Ministry of Future Perfidies notes from the distant vantage point of the year of our Lord 2025, that many of these categories proved to be unnecessarily precise, and were merged. Intermittent improvements to the quality of icons was seen every time someone bothered to pay attention to the site. (So, on average, about every 5-7 years.) 

The Ministry is pleased to announce the creation of three wholly new, completely original and stupendously nifty categories. After listening to the unending whines of of Johno and Buckethead for new categories for their particular fetishes, the Ministry graciously refrained from having them summarily executed, and spent almost a whole dollar to find new images for the category icons. And so, with a moderate amount of further ado, here are the new categories:

and

In the near future, some of the Ministry's wizened HTML gnomes will be flogged from their stupor, and sent to update some old posts to reflect the new categories. Additionally, a the icon for the Perfidy Attacks category was deemed surplus to requirements, and taken behind the Ministry headquarters and shot. The new icon will hopefully be more respectful and... useful.

[wik] The Ministry of Perfidies Future with an update: 

In time, That Buck Rogers Stuff would be replaced, and divided into several categories, each with better icons. Music Wonkery was removed, then re-added with a new icon to distinguish itself from the icon we started using for Minister Johno. The icon for Perfidy Attacks was retained, but now represents an omnibus Our Measured Response category. You can see all of these on the Archives page to the right ovah deh.

The code gnomes have been run hard and put away wet with all the post category updating. Think of them when you look at your non-bleeding fingers.

This message from the Ministry of Minor Perfidy, 2025 edition, thank you for your cooperation. 

A statement from Minister Pythagosaurus:

As a veteran of a hundred failed marketing campaigns, I know that it's important to establish a brand and stick with it if you want to have a prayer of succeeding. People need to recognize your name and learn to trust it.

Firmly casting aside those hard-earned lessons, I am discarding the no-longer-helpful "Pythagosaurus" moniker as I discarded the "Johnny Two-Cents" moniker some months ago. Though both have served a purpose, neither is mellifluous enough, or short enough, to suit my needs.

Therefore, from here forward, I shall be simply known as "Johno" or, if you wish, "Minister Johno the Aggravatingly Indecisive." Whichever you prefer. End transmission.

The Ministry supports Minister Johno in his decision, and is pleased. We extend our best wishes to him and his family, whom the Ministry shall be releasing to his custody forthwith. All hail Minister Johno, master of the pithy metaphor! 

In our continued efforts to expand our readership, we have done things of questionable morality. And certainly of questionable taste. Given that we at the Ministry believe that the ends not only justify, but in fact require the means, we have registered for N. Z. Bear's Blog Beauty Contest.

One of the rules of the Beauty contest requires that we link to three of the other contestants. Therefore, following is our links, and the reasons we admit to linking them:

• Stylishcarp is from Jefferson Parish, LA. His blog includes this, which we found memorable:

  SHERIFF
  HARRY
  LEE'S

  16th Annual
  Chinese, Cajun,
  Cowboy
  Fais-Do-Do

• Don't be a hero talks about Chinese astronauts and doesn't call them Chinkonauts, for which we admire her.
• My Completely Random Life talks about the culture wars, and asks this important question: Which band has had more cultural impact: Nirvana or New Kids on the Block? In context, it's more interesting than it sounds.

So there you have it. Now vote for us by giving us links!

[Update] Just to be clear, this blog has been in existence since July tenth. Archives prior to that date are from Johnny Two-Cents, which is now defunct.

We at the Ministry celebrate a milestone. Today The Ministry of Minor Perfidy came as close as it ever has to the bright burning sun at the core of the blogosphere. Well, the bright burning sun on the right, anyway. And a highly contentious sun at that.

But nevertheless!

This Instapundit post references this Begging to Differ post as well as Doktor Frank, both of whom refer to this nugget of wisdom from Minister Pythagosaurus. The Ministry recognizes the fame, importance and temporary usefulness of the one known as "Glenn Reynolds" and is pleased that we shall taste a small measure of the renown which he so fleetingly enjoys.

We would be remiss in not mentioning our first Icarus-like encounter with blogging greatness. Last week, the estimable USS Clueless linked Minister Buckethead's insight into the Fascist future of Europe; and increased our traffic by nearly three orders of magnitude.

The Ministry is pleased that these individuals have had the perspicacity and good character to recognize our inherent greatness.

The blood, sweat, toil and tears of millions of pixies, sprites, gnomes and off shore contract workers has not gone unrewarded! The Ministry shall not be deterred from its glorious future!! Someday the awe and wonder of the teeming millions shall be the coin of tribute by which the Ministry fills its coffers.

Onward!

In a high powered strategy session, negotiators from the Ministry and Spiral Dive reached broad agreement on the shape of the new Perfidious Analysis Market. Spiral Dive will provide the heavy programming muscle, while the Ministry will provide the in depth geopolitical/historical/cultural knowledge needed to bring this concept to reality.

The new PAM will be similar in broad outline to the Policy Analysis Market proposed by DARPA not too long ago. Like the original PAM, traders will be able to trade in futures contracts based on real world events. Unlike the DARPA PAM, we will (sadly) not be using real money due to the interference of other ministries. However, we will offer a significantly larger array of issues for trading - issues will not be limited to the Middle East, but instead will encompass most regions of the globe.

The Ministry will make periodic announcements as work on this important project progresses. This message from the Minister of Minor Perfidy: Thank you for your cooperation!

We at the ministry wipe our blood stained hands in satisfaction, for the last of the archives are now up. You, the dedicated reader, can now enjoy the fruits of the sufferings of others and read this blog from its earliest primitive beginnings to its most modern and up to date, highly polished present.

This message from the Minister of Minor Perfidy: Thank you for your cooperation!

Please note that this is the fifth month anniversary of this blog. Gifts are welcome, in fact required. Please email for instructions on where to send tribute.

This message from the Minister of Minor Perfidy: Thank you for your cooperation!

Careful readers will have noted that we have been moving the precious archives of the now-defunct Johnny-Twocents blog to their new home at the Ministry. Now that that the April archives are here, that effort is nearly complete. Though the human cost has been high, as hand cutting and pasting html fragments is dangerous and painful work (and the bitdust causes long term pulmonary damage), we at the Ministry have not balked at sacrificing others to achieve our goals.

The Ministry will soon have the March archives operational, and then you too can bask in the reflected glory as you watch the awkward and painful birth-pangs of a new multimedia empire.

This message from the Minister of Minor Perfidy: Thank you for your cooperation!

Go look. People died so that you could read this. Well, only in a very indirect sense. But it's good stuff.

This message from the Minister of Minor Perfidy: Thank you for your cooperation

Seeing as how gnomes proved to be completely unmotivated workers, the Ministry was forced to rely on pixies. While pixies do indeed work harder than the gnomes, they are less reliable. Some of the posts may be out of order. Rest assured that while we will make no effort to go back and correct the mistakes, the pixies were dealt with most severely.

You will notice that there are even some comments transferred over. Given the number of pixies that were sacrificed to transfer even one week of comments, even the Ministry blanches at doing it again.

The benighted gnomes in the archive department have died of exhaustion after only finishing the transfer of archives for the second half of June. Needless to say the Ministry is displeased with their total lack of dedication.

When we find more lackies, more archives will be posted.

The Ministry of Minor Perfidy is moving to a better place. (And no, we're not dead.) Our crack team of commando net researchers determined that the perfidy.org domain had left the bizarre purgatory of the .org registrar's "pending delete hold" status and become available; and our lawyer minions were dispatched forthwith to secure the rights to the Ministry's proper home on the interweb.

That they were succesful certainly increased their life expectancy, but also freed the Ministry from durance vile in the decidedly low rent .biz realm. Over the next several days we will make the switch, generously providing a redirect from perfidy.org to the new digs so as to avoid confusion among the unwary. But note! You must learn to stand on your own two feet, because the redirect will not be there forever.