Tonight I am going to pontificate about my very favorite firearm of all time, the Automatic Pistol, .45 Caliber M1911. As the 100th anniversary of this fine weapon's adoption by the United States Army fast approaches, I was thinking of an article along these lines. However, after reading a particularly derogatory article entitled "The 1911 Sucks," I felt the urge to publish a bit early.
Category Archives: Current Events
Why I'm Awesome
If there is any day of the year I am socially allowed to wax rhapsodic about the phenomena contained within my character, it is today. You see, some time ago, on this day, I was born.
It is an interesting social convention to celebrate this event, which has no biological significance, especially because today has no real association with that day except for, by an act of providence, to have the same markings on a particular calendar. Due to the peculiarities of our "modern" Gregorian calendar, there have actually been 27 years, 7 days and 13 seconds (if you consider a year to be a 365-day period, and a day to be 86,400 seconds) between that point and the same time today. On a purely celestial scale, the Earth has orbited the sun 27 times plus about 7/100 of a degree, while the Moon has waxed and waned almost 334 times, or 27.8299 lunar years.
Your Media and Your Tanks are Belong to Us
If you haven't been living under a rock, and are a reasonably informed person, you've been watching the news thats been exiting Iran during this "period of turmoil." Aside from the obvious Democracy vs. Theocracy and Secular vs. Orthodox debates this country's media seems to stir up at every possibility, there are two outcomes we can already see that interest me, and not in a political or religious way.