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Smoking Guns: #1 – Night Fog – Possible Conclusion

April 12, 2012

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This is the best I've got in the way of an explanation for the events described in "Smoking Guns: #1 - Night Fog." It ain't much, but it's the best I can do.

Smoking Guns: #1 – The Night Fog

April 11, 2012

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This is the first "Smoking Gun" incident. It describes an event so unusual, yet so well attested, that it can only stand as evidence that life is not entirely material in its essence.

Smoking Guns: Introduction

April 10, 2012

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[Note to visitors from Comics Curmudgeon -- despite the title, these posts will have nothing to do with either Judge Parker or Rex Morgan, MD. Sorry about that.] Two incidents in my childhood had truly profound effects upon me. The first was the night Death stood at the foot of my bed. I was about […]

Abortion put simply

March 22, 2012

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Introduction [NOTE: This article is also available for download in a relatively attractive, illustrated PDF format: Abortion put simply.] Recently the abortion debate has reared its unattractive head again, largely inspired by the Texan “House Bill 15″ requiring pregnant women to undergo a sonogram before having an abortion. Sonograms offer extremely detailed images, making the […]

Digging through boxes

March 12, 2012

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While cleaning out the locker I discovered something very interesting -- using old photos and sketches for a blog post is way easier than actually writing one.

V8 Juice and Canadian unity

March 9, 2012

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In 1994, during a crisis in Canadian unity, one food manufacturing company quietly stepped in to help ward off an imminent invasion from the United States. In this post we salute V8 Juice for helping to keep Canada a sovereign nation.

Jessica Simpson, Demi Moore, and me

March 8, 2012

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Yesterday I set upon an experiment in bringing hundreds and hundreds of readers to my blog. Did it work? Well, yes and no.

Six pieces of advice for parenting while cooking in exotic locations during a photoshoot on the journey to becoming a writer — all in list form!

March 6, 2012

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WordPress has a feature called “Freshly Pressed” in which 19 posts are published on the WordPress front page. These posts are meant to represent the “best” of all WordPress bloggers. That certainly seemed to be true when I first noticed them a couple of years ago. They were diverse, well written, and frequently over 1,000 […]