Growing up in Los Angeles, we were annually subjected to a series of PSAs cautioning against celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Eve. In fact, we distinctly remember a police officer visiting our elementary school one year before the holiday break, in order to caution us against going outside in the initial minutes after they calendar’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'firearms'
A Fiberglass Romance
August 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments
Had Corvette Summer been blessed with a better casting director, perhaps it would have escaped the ignominy of our weekly Bad Movie Friday slot. But no—they just had to cast the 27-year-old Mark Hamill as a high-school student, and noted character actress Annie Potts as a Vegas sexpot (a far cry from her ideal role [...]
Tags:Annie Potts·Bad Movie Friday·Corvette Summer·firearms·Mark Hamill·movies·Star Wars
The Arms Trade, Illustrated
July 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments
In the course of learning about contemporary cattle raiding in Sudan, we found ourselves sifting through a recent edition of the annual Small Arms Survey. It’s an informative publication, no doubt, but also mind-numbingly dense; our eyes glazed over midway through Chapter Three, during the extended exploration of “security enhancement projects.”
Thankfully, the survey’s authors must [...]
Tags:AK-47·arms trade·firearms·Small Arms Survey·Somalia·Sudan·weapons
Suicide in the Treasure State
April 9th, 2009 · 9 Comments
Longtime readers know that Microkhan has a curious obsession with suicide. (We blame Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads.) So we couldn’t help but notice the fact that Montana has by far the highest suicide rate in the U.S., at 22 cases per 100,000 residents. That leaves even Nevada and its legions of busted, coked-out gamblers [...]
