Some of you aware of the significance of today might be wondering why it hasn’t been officially mentioned yet by either Jack or myself. We talked it over and decided that Friday is probably actually the true first anniversary of National Zero, based on some moderately plausible reasoning.
NationalZero.com the site first went online on June 24th, 2020, with the first article published at 6:30 PM EDT that evening. However that was kind of a soft opening/test run whatever (The Smell of Gasoline holds the title for first ever National Zero comment). The first news article was not published however until 1:12 PM EDT the next day (which was about Ted Cruz joining Parler, haha).
Personally I prefer this for several reasons: I recently found out that – through sheer coincidence – that National Zero’s progenitor, Spartan America News World Max first went online on June 25, 2019. I did not plan to start one site 365 days after the other, it just happened that way. Not that it really means anything, but it’s nice to know. Christmas is also on the 25th of the month. I like odd numbers better than even ones too. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I’m not sure what to do for our one-year retrospective and haven’t even started it yet. Complete lack of preparedness is the most salient for postponement. You could even go ahead and say in the comments that Spartan’s a lazy asshole for pushing it back a day and I’ll be happy to rebut defensively by elaborating upon the contrived, complete bullshit reasoning above. Hmmm… Maybe shouldn’t have typed that out loud.