The 54th Meeting of the Skeptics Circle, as done by Mickey Spillane (or someone very much like him)

It's that time again, when the part of the blogosphere that celebrates critical thinking over the usual credulousness that allows dubious stories to spread far and wide meets to examine those stories and claims with a hard-nosed skepticism. And few skeptics, it would seem, are as tough as the narrator of this edition of the Skeptics' Circle, who's now telling his tale over at Action Skeptics (where, I guess, they're trying to take the name of the blog literally):

I've been on my own since the Department cut me loose over the Pendelton incident, when I decked that con-artist "psychic" the chief saddled me with during a murder case. Made no nevermind to me. The suits at the department were all jerks anyway, and I don't want to work at a place where they made me take a liar on a joyride chasing wild geese when lives were at stake. I cleaned out my desk and rented some space with a room above. My cat Loki and I moved in, I arranged the furniture to minimize qi flow, and I called the painter. He made me some very pretty words on the front door: "Jack Bixby, Skeptical Investigator."

Join Akusai for the rest.

Next up is EoR at The Second Sight. EoR has hosted before, with amusing results, and I have high hopes that the next time will be just as good. And, as always, if you're interested in tryng your hand at hosting the Circle yourself, drop me a line at oracknows@gmail.com. The schedule is here, and the guidelines for hosting are here. We'll see if your qi and feng shui are right for the job...