I have officially entered the Danger Room. Noah Shachtman is Professor X. Katie Drummond is Jean Grey. For now, I suit up for Cannonball and Mirage’s New Mutant team. I aspire to be more Warlock than Cypher.

So tomorrow expect some slow blogging as I’ll be at Wired’s NYC home offices, learning the how the gears turn, and then eating lunch at the fabled Conde Nast cafeteria. As I do, I’ll remember Rappin’ Duke, duh-ha, duh-ha, because I never thought national-security blogging could make it this far.