The great Oleg Volk has created yet another wallpaper that I must add to my collection.  This time with a Colt Detective Special.

Nice, but I think an old Kaywoodie pipe would have looked even better than the cigar.

After all, even Philip Marlowe puffed a pipe on occasion.

Sigh...this is what I get for not posting my every thought.

Several days ago I noticed this odd story about some guy who was blaming his cell phone for spontaneously combusting in his pocket and causing second- and third-degree burns.  Original article here.

I thought about making a snide remark about it, but didn't due to being legitimately tired and somewhat lazy.

Let me just say that when I read that article, all of my Fortean b.s. detectors went off.  Why?  I don't know, it just didn't feel right.  A cell phone supposedly caused such burns to his legs, torso and face, and went on to cause $75,000 worth of damage to the hotel in which he was staying.

Now it seems this was not the case.  New information here.

However, new facts reveal that the Nokia phone was not the cause of the fire, said the mobile phone company upon inspection of the phone, which was reportedly still fully functional after Picaso had been hospitalized. Local fire inspector Bill Tweedy concurred with Nokia's findings. "He could have been smoking a cigarette, the cigarette fell into his pocket, and it started on fire," suggested Tweedy.

He could have been smoking a cigarette?  Did anyone bother to discover if he even smokes cigarettes?  He managed to drop a cigarette so that it fell inside his pants pocket?

This is not something especially notable in the grand scheme of things.  Most people who read this blog are already familiar with misleading information and outright lies that the MSM spreads on a variety of other topics, like when it comes to guns.

The same thing happens with strange phenomena.  They love to write "humorous" little blurbs about "oddities," so smarmy one can almost see the condescending smirk on the writer's face.  When something truly strange happens, they rush to come up with a bunch of lame, half-assed excuses instead of investigating it and reporting the facts as best they can.

Sometimes weird things happen that just can't be easily explained.  Just because something can't be immediately explained doesn't mean it isn't worth reporting.  A more truthful report would have been something like:  "This guy caught on fire somehow and so far no one really has any idea how it happened."

Charles Fort would have loved this one.

I got an email a few days ago telling me that I had some "Cafe Cash."  So I just wanted to say thank you to whoever clicked through the ads on the left and bought the "peace, love, basketball" raglan and thong.

Raglan?  I thought that was just a long-sleeved t-shirt.

This time the picture of my EMF rifle was hotlinked by a gun-related discussion forum.

The guy didn't even describe it right.  He said it was a Winchester 1894C.  It's a replica Winchester 1873.  And of course, it's not actually a Winchester.

I don't feel like registering to correct him.  As a newbie to an online forum I would automatically be wrong, no matter how much experience I have outside the forum and regardless of the fact that the gun actually belongs to me.  (This is standard operating procedure for forums).

Now I just need to come up with something to switch the picture with.

The thread wasn't all that great, either.  A .357 vs .45 thread, with someone quoting those bogus M&S "one shot stop" percentages.  It looks like they're only about 2 posts away from getting into the Strasbourg goat tests.