Happy Monday ever-body! Sloopy has some sort of situation come up and I am pitch hitting. So let’s see: The Pacific group won the NHL All-Star Game and the Hipster Mancunians won the Fanny Adams cup in communist football. And now… the links!
I was skeptical about a magazine whose acronym can be pronounce “penis” publishing a study on ibuprofen and “compensated hypogonadism”. But this may be legit. Long-term ibuprofen use may be contraindicated for the dudes.
This is the situation which results in a school and probably a police station burning down. Baker acting a seven year old. What the fuck is wrong with people?
In other Florida news, there is probably a Florida Man with 4 days worth of meth, a Pub Sub, 40 feet of nylon rope, and 55 gallon barrel on his way to meet the author of this piece. This person has never been to Connecticut or Oklahoma.
You know, for all the shit we get about being ugly Americans, the other Anglophone countries do a good job of shitting up places.
For music, I think I’ve gone with Holiday in Cambodia recently, so here’s something tangentially related.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE GIFT OF THE LINK WILL BE YOURS, BECAUSE YOU HAVE CARRIED OUT YOUR DUTY OF SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS, WHO ARE LEGION. ZARDOZ IS CONSIDERING A RECRUITING DRIVE, FOR ADDITIONAL BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS. THERE IS SO MUCH OF THE STUPIDITY OF BRUTALS….ZARDOZ MUST DETERMINE A WAY TO REDUCE IT. OBSERVE, IN THE GIFT OF THE LINK, THE IDIOCY OF THE BRUTALS;
THIS FOOLISH BRUTAL THINKS HE KNOWS OF CLEANSING THE FILTH OF BRUTALS? ZARDOZ KNEW HE SHOULD HAVE TRADEMARKED THAT PHRASE.
IF THE BRUTALS ARE ALL CHEATING, WHY IS THE SCHOOL CALLED “ONE OF AMERICA’S BEST”?
BRITISH BRUTALS HAVE TO GO TO…FRANCE TO GET REPAIRED? BETTER THEY WERE CLEANSED BY THAT WONDERFUL BRUTAL EXTERMINATING ORGANIZATION – THE NHS.
FOOLS. ALL GRAIN SHOULD BE HELD FOR THE VORTEX, NOT PUT ON “UNESCO’S INTANGIBLE HERITAGE LIST”.
Sous Chef Oscar I love recipes and cookbooks. I often read cookbooks on Sunday mornings, but I usually cook without a recipe. Cooking without a recipe is a useful skill because it lets me just look through the refrigerator, pull stuff out and make dinner. In addition, most recipes are designed to serve four or more, which for a single woman like me, means leftovers.
I don’t like to eat leftovers. Leftovers can be convenient for lunches or future dinners, but with the exception of chilis, stews or some soups, most recipes just don’t benefit from reheating. If a recipe doesn’t reheat well, it doesn’t freeze well. Making a single portion lets me eat good food and avoid leftovers.
It is easy to come home from work and order in or use processed food to throw together a dinner– that’s not healthy for my waistline or wallet. I need to make sure that cooking dinner is easier and better than ordering in or eating something already prepared.
A few principals of cooking for one before we start:
1) Season your food. Salt is why food in a restaurant tastes good. Use it.
2) Use garnishes like parsley, chives, a bit of cheese or nuts. Those little touches at the end really do improve the experience for very little effort.
3) Pay attention to presentation. When the food looks inviting, it tastes better. And, even though it seems counter-intuitive, when food looks inviting and tastes good, you actually eat less because it is more satisfying. So, if you are interested in losing weight, take time to make your food special.
I need something that is quick and easy to prepare and cleanup for those nights when I don’t feel like cooking. So, let’s start with the simplest method I know; the brown and bake. I want to make this feel like a composed dish by using two or more vegetables. It makes the meal feel more special than just tossing something together. To demonstrate the method, I’m making a chicken thigh with sweet potato and spinach.
1. Preheat the oven to 400F.
2. Season a skin on, bone in chicken thigh with salt and pepper. Add a little oil or butter to an oven safe skillet, then add the chicken thigh, skin side down.
3. While the chicken browns, peel and chop a sweet potato into 1 inch pieces. Once the chicken skin is brown and crispy, add the sweet potato to the pan and season with a little salt. Put the pan into the oven keeping the chicken skin side down, and bake for 15 minutes.
4. After 15 minutes, turn the chicken over and stir the sweet potato around, then return to the oven for another 10 to 15 minutes.
5. When the chicken is done (at least 165F – use a meat thermometer) remove from the oven, and put the chicken thigh on a plate.
6. Add spinach to the pan with the sweet potato and toss until the spinach wilts. Sprinkle on a little blue cheese and serve.
That’s it. Crispy chicken skin, soft sweet potatoes and tangy blue cheese paired with the slight bitterness of spinach. You have a satisfying dinner for one that looks and tastes like a composed dish in about one half hour and with little effort and an easy cleanup. Perfect for a weeknight.
Done!
This method is easily adaptable for a variety of proteins and vegetables. For example you could use new potatoes cut in half and tossed with a little fresh, chopped, rosemary before adding to the pan. Then toss with the spinach as above. A little blue or feta cheese works here as well. Butternut squash can also be substituted for the sweet potato.
Other variations:
Cut carrots and parsnips into matchsticks and toss with honey and cayenne pepper before adding to the pan. Top with a little chopped fresh chives.
Pair a thick pork shop with Brussels sprouts and apple. Cut the Brussels sprouts in half or quarters depending on the size. Cut the apple into pieces about the same size as the Brussels sprouts – add the apple at the halfway point.
Salmon works well, but choose vegetables that cook quickly – like asparagus and cherry tomatoes, finished with a splash of balsamic vinegar and some capers. Or, use green beans and mushrooms.
Your imagination is the only limit.
Next time I will talk about making a skillet dinner with a pan sauce.
OK, I’m not a big drinker, but I’ll confess to having a few last night. And a few more. But I had an excuse- dinner at an amazingly good Afghan restaurant, where most of the other patrons appeared to be predominantly Afghan and Iranian (the cuisines are similar), and our table was peopled with a fascinating mix. It’s a BYOB place, and we brought indeed. Swiss and two other highly decorated vets of the various Afghan campaigns regaled us with cynical stories of their experiences. RAHeinlein and her husband talked geek science. Webdominatrix and I drank and listened. And coincidentally, yesterday’s news brought us yet more evidence that our 17 year (and still running) war in Afghanistan is a stunning success.
Every time I deal with tiresome progressives who slobber over the vast superiority of Europe in all ways, I always come back to the concept of free speech. “But they have much freer speech than we do!” Bull-fucking-shit. And I speak with some experience, having had most of my mother’s family (who were shut out of immigrating to the US by changes in the laws meant to exclude “undesirables” such as Jews) slaughtered in Polish extermination camps. The two people who survived Auschwitz and were eventually smuggled into South America would never speak directly of their experiences, but carried a deep hatred of Poles and Poland which spoke volumes over who were the culprits. Come on, arrest me for saying that. (I found this in the news this morning, but looks like Chafed sent the tip last night while I was merrymaking, so I’ll be generous with the h/t; or is it yarmulke tip?)
From the Department of Let Them Eat Cake, comes this little gem. Remember all those kids who died from Legos? Yeah, me neither. The whole rush for sexy stories to pull in grant money has made certain areas of science (climatology, toxicology, epidemiology, nutrition) into the sort where the presumption has to be that the “research” is bullshit. I may have more to say about this later this week, since I’ve seen some of my work cited frequently (and mischaracterized) in stories of panic about plastics.
Speaking of eating, the Old Guy music today centers on a theme near and dear to the heart of a Jewish vegetarian. I happened to be sitting in the front row at the recording of this album and the show was as fun as it sounds here.
STEVE SMITH NOT HAPPY…HE NO GET LAWYER TO STOP IMAGE USE. ALL AFRAID OF RAPE. SO STEVE SMITH RAPE LAST 2 LAWYERS…NOT SEE PROBLEM. BUT THIS NOT FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS PEOPLE PROBLEM. IS PROBLEM FOR STEVE SMITH. HE THINK ON IT, WHILE YOU READ LINKS AND SAY FUNNY THINGS.
STEVE SMITH CATEGORICALLY DENY BEING PART OF TEAM WHO ASK QUESTIONS OF PRINCE. HIM COOPERATE FREELY. NOT AT THREAT OF STEVE SMITH RAPE. NOPE.
YOU KNOW STEVE SMITH DON’T LIKE AMATEURS…SO HOPE THIS PUT MANY IN JAIL OR DISGRACE.
SILLY NEWSPAPER THINK, NEXT TIME GOVERNMENT SPEND GOOD. MAYBE STEVE SMITH NEED TO RAPE THEM INTO GOOD SENSE?
STEVE SMITH NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY…SO YOU READ, HE JUST SHAKE HEAD.
STEVE SMITH GO NOW. IT DISCOUNT NIGHT AT RV PARK, SO STEVE SMITH GO FIND CHEAP DATES. BY FIND CHEAP DATES, MEAN RAPE ENTIRE RV PARK.
I’ve discussed game weight before, and today I’m going to the heavy end of the spectrum. If you’re just starting out, these may not be the games for you. These are three games that are all wildly different, but will help to burn your brain a bit.
Heavy GAMES, not Heavy D!
Game 1) Auctioning and Actioning and Activating, Oh My – Keyflower (2-6 players)
On paper, Keyflower sounds like a short game, it’s only played over four rounds. However, each round will take some time, and if you have someone prone to AP (Analysis Paralysis – being unable/unwilling to commit to a decision until they analyze all the options) this is probably not the game for them. All of the players start the game with a hut, a village tile, 8 random meeples, and 3 winter tiles. The village tiles determine player order for the start of the game, the hut is to hide your meeples, and we’ll get back to the winter tiles later. The meeples are your currency in the game, they start in three colors (red, blue, and yellow), with green being available through tiles. Each round is named after a season, so we start in Spring. To set up the round, we pull meeples from a bag and put them on boats, we draw skill tiles to put on the boats, we place turn order tiles, and then we place a number of spring tiles (determined by the number of players) between all of the players. On a player’s turn, they can either bid on a tile by placing meeples on their edge, activate a tile by placing meeples on the tile, or pass. The round ends when all players pass in a row, and unlike most games, you can pass, and then take an action later in the round. Where things get complicated is that once a color of meeple has been used on a tile, all further bids and activations of that tile must use the same color. If you’re activating a tile, you must put at least one more meeple on it then the previous activation (so if the first activation was a single meeple, the second activation would require at least two meeples), and a tile can never have more than six meeples on it. If you have been outbid on a tile, you can move the group of meeples you bid with to shore up another bid, or to activate a tile; but you cannot take them back into your hut, and they must all be moved as a group. Once a round ends, the winner of the best turn order tile selects a boat, and takes any meeples and skill tiles on it, this continues until all of the players have selected a boat. Then people take any tile that they won the bid on, and place it in their village. They also add any meeples that were on the tiles they won to their hut, while all of the bids (winning and losing) go into the bag for randomization. At that point, boat distributions may change, and a random selection of the next season’s tiles come out. In these later rounds, you are able to use tiles in other player’s villages by placing meeples on them (of course the person who owns the tile will get the meeples, but it can be worth it). Tiles can also be upgraded with certain actions, which will improve the tile, and usually be worth endgame points. The only season where the tiles coming out for the auction isn’t random is winter. Each player must select at least one of their winter tiles (told you we’d get back to them) to put into the center for auctions. Winter tiles will award endgame points based on different criteria, which can help to guide your strategy through the game. The full game will take between 90-120 minutes.
Game 2) Blame the Game, not the player – Ponzi Scheme (3-5 players)
Ok, I couldn’t stay away from offering up a good game for relatively new players. This is more of a midweight game, but the interaction is where it gets dense. If you don’t know what a Ponzi scheme is, get thee to a wiki. For the rest of you, in this game the players are all running their own Ponzi schemes. To play, each player starts with a shield, a countdown rondel, a reference card, and a pen card (to keep track that everyone’s been moving their countdown rondel correctly). A play board with three rows is set in the center, and the initial funding cards are organized by their payouts. The remaining funding cards are shuffled and placed next to the board. The game is then played in phases, starting with the funding phase. In the funding phase, starting with the first player, players can take a funding card. The funding cards have a dollar amount on them, a payout amount, and a payout time (for the math challenged, they also calculate the interest rate of the payments). What row you select from is dependant on how many industry tiles you have. Each time you take a funding card, you must take an industry tile at the same time. If you have no industry tiles in that same color, you pick from the first row, if you have one industry tile in the same color, the second row, and if you have two industry tiles in the same color, the third row. The industry tiles will be worth points, and limit trading in later phases. Whenever a funding card is removed from the board, a new one is drawn and the cards are reordered based on their payout values. After the funding phase, we move on to the clandestine trading phase (this is skipped in the first round of the game). Starting with the first player, each player gets to put some of their money (hidden behind their player shield) into a fancy leather wallet. Then they hand that wallet to a player with a matching industry tile, and name the industry they want to purchase. The player who receives the wallet has two options: keep the money in the wallet, and hand over the industry tile; or they double the money in the wallet and hand it back to the initiator and purchase one of their industry tiles. The wallet gets passed on to the next player in player order and this repeats until everyone has made an offer or passed. The third phase is to pass the first player marker (a cardboard pen), and the player who is receiving the pen selects a funding card to remove from the player board. After that the fourth phase is to check if there’s a bear market. A bear market happens when the number of funding cards with a bear in the background is equal to or greater than the number of players. If there’s not a bear market, then every player rotates their countdown rondel one tick and must payback any loans that have the red arrow pointing at them. If there’s a bear market, each player must discard one industry tile from the industry they have the most tiles in (if the player has a tie between two industries they pick), then the rondel moves two places, and any that the red arrow moves through or end on must be paid. After the loans are paid, the loan cards get placed back at their payout number on the rondel. You didn’t think you ever paid these loans back, did you? The game ends when any player is unable to make all of the loan payments that are required of them, this can happen to more than one person at the same time. All players who went bankrupt lose, and do not score points. The other players score points for their industry tiles. The industry tiles are scored where the first one in any industry is worth 1 point, the second is worth 2 points, the third, 3 points, etc. Money is worth nothing at the end of the game. So if a player had 3 green tiles, 4 red tiles, and 2 blue tiles, their final score would be: (1+2+3) + (1+2+3+4) + (1+2) = 19 points. This game will go between 45 – 90 minutes.
Game 3) If you can’t handle the heat, get out of the field – Scoville (2-6 players)
IT BURNS!
Scoville is a game that looks like it should be friendly, you’re trying to plant hot peppers, cross breed them, harvest them, and either sell them for cash or completing chili recipes for points. There are two time periods of the game, the morning and the afternoon. The time period dictates which Auction card deck you user, as well as which market tiles are available for purchase. The game is played in turns, which have the following phases:
Auction – All players secretly bid coins to select their place in turn order. If you don’t spend at least 1 coin, you just maintain the same relative turn order. After the turn orders are set, in the new turn order, players select Auction cards, which provide pepper(s).
Planting – In turn order players each must plant one pepper into the communal field. The pepper must be adjacent to a pepper already in the field (two are seeded in the field during the setup). If you plant a non-basic pepper, and there’s a score tile available, you may claim it.
Harvesting – In reverse turn order, players move their farmer through the field, moving up to 3 steps. They cannot pass through other farmers, and must move forward or turn in 90 degree angles. For every pair of peppers they pass between, they harvest new peppers based on the cross breeding chart (as an example a red pepper + a blue pepper = a Purple pepper; there are 4 tiers of peppers in the game).
Fulfillment – In turn order players may each claim a market tile with peppers, complete a chili recipe, or sell a batch of peppers to the bank. Each player can only do each item once, but they can do all three.
Time Check – Depending how many recipe cards, and/or market tiles are available, the game can move to afternoon or to a final round.
Each player keeps their peppers, money, and claimed tiles/cards behind a player screen. So it becomes important to keep in mind how much money players have, as well as what peppers they may have. Each player also starts with three bonus action tiles that allow them to either break a movement rule or plant an extra pepper during their turn. These tiles are worth 4 points at the end of the game if you haven’t used them. The real meat is in planting peppers to make your movements more valuable, while causing other people to have movements that don’t provide them what they need. During the fulfillment phase, players who claim a market tile will get cash or more peppers, while recipes are worth only points. The game scales quite well, with a different number of cards and tiles coming out dependant on player counts (and all of the amounts printed on the board for easy reference). Adding players does add play time, so I would recommend sticking with 3-4 for your first play. At the end game, players score up their points, with peppers being worth nothing at the end of the game. The highest score wins.
I hope that some of you that have been reading along are willing to make an attempt at some of these more complicated games. Keyflower has a decent implementation on BoardGameArena.com (which I discussed briefly in an early column) in case you wanted to try one of these out without purchasing them.
In my family, real estate is sort of a big deal. Since we all know what happened to the housing market in 2008, we began doing something every year for Christmas: we drew names. Ultimately this meant I only had to buy a single gift but it did mean I was also receiving a single gift. This year, my brother got me and while it really was thoughtful of him to get what he got me–I already had one. Semper paratus as they say, he had the receipt handy: Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Shit. At least they sell beer in the “beyond” section.
This is my review of Lindemann’s Kriek Lambic.
Lambic is among the oldest styles of beer, but do not confuse this to mean these are in any sense of the word, primitive. On the palate these are as complex as they come, with several diverse sub-styles. To get a good idea of how old these may be, the painting below titled, Peasant Wedding from around 1567 suggests, people have been enjoying Lambic for centuries.
It’s a style believed to have originated in Belgium around the time of the Roman conquest. The Germanic tribes viewed the wine made by Mediterranean cultures to be effeminate, which even now seems to be an opinion held by many, though not me personally. The earliest known account was from Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, while travelling to the region he ordered a pitcher at a local pub. He took a liking to the lambic and had several servings from the pitcher, and apparently harassed the blonde waitress. Man of the people, he was.
But like everything else these days, there seem to be conflicting reports. According to this guy, there is no specific evidence that lambics existed before the 18th century. There is nothing medieval about this beer other than the stoneware Belgians used. It is a myth perpetuated mostly by lazy beer writers who don’t know what they’re talking about and sure enough, the misconception is the story that stuck.
The commonality between the stories is what I can assume isn’t fake news. What is common? Lambics are a type of sour beer that is defined by its spontaneous fermentation. That is, the brewers will put the casks outside to allow and even siphon wild yeast and bacteria into the wort to do the dirty work. Modern lambics are not made with a biochemist on staff with some GMO yeast strain in a test tube. It’s as natural as it gets without isolating a strain from a brewmaster’s hipster beard (Rogue), or even a yeast pulled from some lady’s yoo hoo.
No, seriously. A lab in Poland swabbed and isolated the strain from a Czech model. If I told you they swabbed her, would you drink it?
Much like wine and whiskey (or whisky for your Canadians), lambics are often blended with other lambics to allow for varying levels of complexity. Charles V himself was likely served a blend with a sweeter variety to make it more palatable. These can be served like champagne, and the sour varieties are great to pair with food because they do well to cleanse the palate. This one is made with sour cherries, hence the name Kreik. Others made by Lindemann include strawberry, raspberry (framboise), black currants (cassis), and peaches (peche). This one is more tart than sour and is very light. If you happen to like cherries, you’ll like this one. Lindeman’s Kreik Lambic 4.0/5.
This week was not one of our best. SP got in a heap of trouble for wearing her Glibs gear to Show And Tell, and I had to spend a great deal of time with her teacher and principal. “But it’s a family friendly site, suitable for all ages!” Nonetheless, I had to do some fancy dancing to explain away the Hat and Hair theme…
Kilis, a town with a population of fewer than 100,000, has swelled to 130,000 with the influx of refugees, and although the Syrians have been widely accepted, there is local resentment, especially over economic resources. Turkey has spent billions on the refugees, noted Mr. Emir, the barber, whose shop was empty. “If the government had given that money to the Turkish population there would not be any poor people left,” he said.
I know, let’s get involved! What could possibly go wrong?
If you feel like you don’t have enough meaningless things to fret about, here’s one for you. Know what I fret about? That Scientific American used to be an excellent and educational publication, and now it’s all about politics, FUD, and fourth-rate bloggers. The enstupidation of America continues apace.
As much as we complain about the legacy news media, they still have the capacity to entertain. I’m reminded of the Three Stooges short where their boat sprang a leak and started sinking, so Curly drilled holes in the bottom to let the water out.
The Dutch have spoken: in a contest to determine the Showpiece of the Netherlands, the finalists included Rembrandt’s Night Watch, Leeuwenhouk’s microscope, and Escher’s Sky and Water. The winner? The Plakkaat Van Verlatinghe, their version of the Declaration of Independence from 1581; in their case, the independence was from the Spanish king. It’s worth a read.
It wouldn’t be a Saturday morning without Old Guy Music. This one is a special edition in honor of Glib Fit. If you’re old like me, you might have nightmarish memories of phys ed class with this stupid thing blaring at you, a relic of JFK’s version of Michelle Obama do-gooding. For the children, of course. When Robert Preston died, I had a little celebration.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. FRIEND STEVE SMITH IS TAKING NIGHT OFF, THUS ZARDOZ WILL GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. ZARDOZ REMINDS HIS CHOSEN ONES OF A FEW THINGS FIRST;
YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED UP FROM BRUTALITY, TO SNARK AT THE BRUTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION,
THE PENIS IS EVIL! THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME BACKSLIDING ON THIS, WITH LINKS TO “FLBP” AND “THICC” AND SUCH. ZARDOZ WARNS THAT OBSERVING SUCH, MAY CAUSE PENIC ERECTION. BETTER THAT YOU BE CAREFUL, AND GO FORTH AND COMMENT.
THE GUN IS GOOD. HERE, ZARDOZ IS PLEASED (ESPECIALLY WITH HIS CHOSEN ONE, VHYRUS) WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND DEDICATION MANY OF HIS CHOSEN ONES SHOW TO THE GUN!
NOW, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK!
NOT MUCH OF A “CLASH” IF THERE IS NO USE OF THE GUN. ZARDOZ WONDERS IF THERE WILL BE ACCUSATIONS OF RUSSIAN BOTS OR MEDDLING THERE?
ZARDOZ WAS HOPING FOR MORE CLEANSING. APPARENTLY THE ESCAPEES WERE NOT DANGEROUS ENOUGH. NO WORD WAS SENT TO ZARDOZ OR THE TABERNACLE IF ANY OF THEM WERE NOTED COMMENTERS FROM OTHER SITES.
ZARDOZ BELIEVES THIS WILL BE DONE IN THE USUAL EU MANNER – CLUMSILY, HEAVY HANDED, AND WITH A REGRETTABLE LACK OF CLEANSING.
FOOLISH BRUTAL IS CAUGHT. IF ZARDOZ FINDS OUT THAT ANY OF THE ITEMS HE HAD WERE STOLEN FROM THE VORTEX…HE WILL BE CLEANSED.
GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
*Glib Brutal bows and scrapes into room*
“Oh, mighty ZARDOZ, might we put a link in to show the new Hat n’ Hair merch?”
I have returned, brave glibs! Certain real life circumstances have kept me away from the site, but know that I am always here, watching, waiting, and ready to talk about guns for hours on end. SHOT Show finished off today. For those that don’t know, SHOT Show is the biggest firearms trade show on earth. It is where all the big (and small) manufacturers gather to show off their newest toys. Unfortunately, my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail so I was not able to attend in person, but I have been scouring the tubes looking for the biggest gun news to share to you, our loyal shitposters. So, without further delay, here are the biggest stories from SHOT 2018:
Probably the biggest shakeup of the show was Franklin Armory’s debut of a gun they call ‘The Reformation’. It’s an 11.5″ barreled fully functional AR with a stock and does not require a NFA tax stamp. People were freaking out about this thing for at least a week before the show. It turns out that the secret is a pretty big let down: it has a straight rifled barrel. This means the bullets don’t come out spinning. For those wondering, yes, that gives it terrible accuracy. They claim something like 4 moa at 50 yards before it starts keyholing. They also claim they are working with ammo manufacturers to create finned bullets specifically for this design. If it works, we could (possibly) see a major change in firearms production as companies make special non NFA sbrs with straight rifling. Most likely scenario? This thing becomes the gyrojet of the 21st century. Only time will tell.
On a significantly less disappointing note, Ruger has come out swinging with their ‘new’ PC Carbine. It’s a traditional looking rifle chambered in 9mm that can take either SR series magazines or Glock magazines with a simple adapter change, and the adapter is included. The gun is fully reversible for right or left hand operation, and it even breaks down into 2 parts for transport and storage. Those of you that have been around guns for awhile probably remember Ruger making a very similar gun called the police carbine, hence the quotes around new. This is basically an updated version of the same gun. This thing is a real winner, and there is a very good chance I will be picking one up in the near future.
IWI dropped a bombshell this year by debuting it’s new TS 12 bullpup 12 gauge shotgun. It has a fixed 15 round magazine consisting of three separate 5 round tubes that can be loaded from either side. Once the selected tube is empty, simply rotate the magazine and snap the next 5 rounds in place. Not a perfect solution but it might be good enough. It’s going to be an expensive AF shotgun, but we will have to see if it’s worth the coin. Between this and the new Tavor 7, I might have to sell some of my concubines.
It has finally happened. A company has made a housing for the P320 FCG that turns it into a sbr style pistol. Called the EXO ONE, it is sure to put me even further into debt.
Century has decided to jump on board the 9mm gravy train with it’s new Draco NAK9 pistol. It is a blowback 9mm AK style pistol that takes Glock mags. Do want.
Not to be outdone, CZ has come out with the Scorpion Micro. Sporting a 4 inch barrel and a collapsible stock brace, this looks like quite a nice little, uh… ‘pistol’ for your truck or other tight space.
This is quickly becoming the year of the 9mm and the 12 gauge. Mossberg and Remington have both come out with magazine fed 12 gauge pump guns. The Mossberg ones are slightly more interesting seeing as how the magazine are actually double stack. This allows them to hold considerably more ammo without sticking out freakishly long below the gun. Is the era of the tube fed shotgun coming to an end? Could be…
Strike industries has developed an AR magazine that will eject itself on the last round fired. I can see this becoming the go to standard magazine for 3 gun matches. No word on pricing or availability yet. I am anxiously awaiting their arrival.
Palmetto State Armory is going into production with an AK pattern 9mm carbine that takes… MP5 magazines? Huh. Well A for originality on that one. They also plan on releasing a 5.56 AK that takes AR mags and a 9mm AK that accepts Glock mags, proving that they haven’t completely lost their minds. Much more interestingly, they also are working on producing their own in house MP5 clones; however, those will not be available anytime soon.
Sig has officially announced you will be able to buy the M17 on the civilian market, ensuring a steady consumer base of up and coming Call Of Duty neckbeards for generations. They also introduced a slim frame subcompact 9mm with a 10 round capacity called the P365.
Attention Canada: You can now purchase Glock 19s! The Canadian legal Glock 19 has a slightly longer barrel to comply with your retarded barrel length laws. You’re welcome.
And last, but not least, my favorite handgun company Walther has finally release the PPQ Subcompact. Took you guys long enough.
That is all for now, my loyal readers. As for when I shall return, I cannot say. But know this: When the future is darkest, when the world needs me the most, I shall return. Until then, I will always be watching through my magnified red dot.
I was skeptical about a magazine whose acronym can be pronounce “penis” publishing a study on ibuprofen and “compensated hypogonadism”. But this may be legit. Long-term ibuprofen use may be contraindicated for the dudes.
No, seriously. A lab in Poland swabbed and isolated the strain from a Czech model. If I told you they swabbed her, would you drink it?
